Svyatoslav Tribes · Gardar

159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 95-117 and 127 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SVYATOSLAV TRIBES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 118, 123, 126, 158 and 159.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 158-159 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 14 sections: 131 keep time, 5 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-117.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
9 groovesCBKWE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Svyatoslav Tribes?

160 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 Svyatoslav Tribes hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Svyatoslav Tribes?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 118, 123, 126, 158 and 159.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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