Starspawn · Blood Incantation

158 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95-100 and 102-108 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
STARSPAWN · BAR 96
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 36 and 45 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 16 sections: 75 keep time, 51 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-123.

PART C
PART F
PART S7
PART AF
PART AP
PART AT
CHORUS
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAWS7ALAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starspawn?

200 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 Starspawn hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Starspawn?

18 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 36 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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