The House Of The Arcane Pt.II · Ale & Gabbo

268 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 11-12 and 14-15, and 6 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE HOUSE OF THE ARCANE PT.II · BARS 8-9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48 and 42 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 30 sections: 131 keep time, 48 are fills, 13 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

PART F
CHORUS
PART BL
PART BW
28 groovesS11FBLBWBA+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The House Of The Arcane Pt.II?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The House Of The Arcane Pt.II hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 35 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The House Of The Arcane Pt.II?

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 31, 32, 33, 34, 48 and 42 more.

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