Slaves Shall Serve · Behemoth

94 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 22, and 5 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 139 BPM
SLAVES SHALL SERVE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 41 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 11-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 14 sections: 32 keep time and 48 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-57.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEABPT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaves Shall Serve?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Slaves Shall Serve hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 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 Slaves Shall Serve?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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