The Battle of the Five Armies · Wind Rose

318 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 6:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
6:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-48, 65-67 and 69-70, and 8 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 52, 60 and 15 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

318 bars across 26 sections: 255 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 183-233.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART AA
12 groovesHXQAAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Battle of the Five Armies?

185 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 Battle of the Five Armies hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

318 bars, about 6:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 The Battle of the Five Armies?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 52, 60 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED
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