Spell Of Destruction · Burzum

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 27, and 13 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SPELL OF DESTRUCTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 85 and 89.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 10 sections: 127 keep time, 3 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-161.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABCS6S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spell Of Destruction?

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 Spell Of Destruction hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Spell Of Destruction?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 57, 85 and 89.

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