Symphony of a Dying Star · Mental Cruelty

148 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 220 BPM, 3:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 12-17 and 23-26, and 5 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 220 BPM
SYMPHONY OF A DYING STAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 18, 20 and 24 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 30 are fills, 6 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-94.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AF
BREAK 4
8 groovesCS10AFMX+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symphony of a Dying Star?

220 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Symphony of a Dying Star hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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 Symphony of a Dying Star?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 18, 20 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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