The Ambassador Of Pain · Kataklysm

114 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 45-52 and 98-101 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 211 BPM
THE AMBASSADOR OF PAIN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 38, 40 and 7 more.

LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 14 sections: 69 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART I
PART N
PART I
BREAK 3
9 groovesFJING+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ambassador Of Pain?

211 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 The Ambassador Of Pain hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Ambassador Of Pain?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 38, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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