The Hanging Tree · Elvenking

166 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 19-21 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
THE HANGING TREE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23 and 47 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 18 sections: 80 keep time, 53 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

CHORUS 2
PART N
PART N
PART N
PART AG
PART AF
OUTRO
10 groovesCNAAGAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hanging Tree?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Hanging Tree hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Hanging Tree?

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 23 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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