Sworn To The Black · Morbid Angel

109 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 42, and 6 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SWORN TO THE BLACK · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 23 and 15 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 21 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-13.

PART E
PART I
PART E
PART I
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLEAMIS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sworn To The Black?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sworn To The Black hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Sworn To The Black?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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