The Burning Shadows Of Silence · Emperor

201 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-64, 129-135 and 137-139, and 3 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE BURNING SHADOWS OF SILENCE · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 49 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 55 are fills, 4 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

PART I
PART AE
PART S
CHORUS 3
BREAK
13 groovesQSIS19AE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Burning Shadows Of Silence?

170 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 Burning Shadows Of Silence hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 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 The Burning Shadows Of Silence?

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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