Talisman (Original) · Rata Blanca

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-15 and 35-48, and 7 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TALISMAN (ORIGINAL) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 57, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 7 sections: 124 keep time, 12 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-56.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talisman (Original)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Talisman (Original) 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Talisman (Original)?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 57, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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