Soulreaper · Dissection

321 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
321
LENGTH
6:44
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 126-132 and 134-136, and 14 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
SOULREAPER · BAR 126
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 49 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

321 bars across 21 sections: 227 keep time, 55 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-40.

PART H
PART U
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesFHUCJAD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Soulreaper?

190 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 Soulreaper hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

321 bars, about 6:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 Soulreaper?

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 49 more.

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