Sons Of Plunder · Disturbed

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-12 and 30-33, and 1 more place -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SONS OF PLUNDER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 45, 47, 49, 53, 63 and 5 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-92.

PART E
PART B
PART E
PART I
PART L
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEBCL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sons Of Plunder?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sons Of Plunder hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sons Of Plunder?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 45, 47, 49, 53, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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