The Goatchrist · Belphegor

188 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 17 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 235 BPM
THE GOATCHRIST · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14 and 22 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 28 are fills, 13 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-32.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
7 groovesES11CMO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Goatchrist?

235 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 Goatchrist hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 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 Goatchrist?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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