Spoils of the Horde (accurate) · Fit for an Autopsy

172 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SPOILS OF THE HORDE (ACCURATE) · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 5-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 32 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 12 sections: 29 keep time, 95 are fills, 32 are stops and 9 are silent.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesUS2AYS11AI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spoils of the Horde (accurate)?

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

Is Spoils of the Horde (accurate) 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Spoils of the Horde (accurate)?

11 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →