Slaughter Of The Soul · At The Gates

118 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 42-44 and 46-52, and 9 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
SLAUGHTER OF THE SOUL · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 12 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCEJN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaughter Of The Soul?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slaughter Of The Soul hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Slaughter Of The Soul?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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