The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased (Better version) · Nile

240 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 151 and 166-172, and 5 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
THE FIENDS WHO COME TO STEAL THE MAGICK OF THE DECEASED (BETTER VERSION) · BAR 187
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 120 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 114 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 15 sections: 89 keep time, 120 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-172.

PART T
PART AK
PART BB
PART BW
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesABBBTAKBW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased (Better version)?

240 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 Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased (Better version) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 Fiends Who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased (Better version)?

30 fills to learn, played 120 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 114 more.

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