The Invisible Guests · King Diamond

131 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 23 and 39, and 3 more places -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
THE INVISIBLE GUESTS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 74 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 15-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 14 sections: 36 keep time, 80 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-41.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKXABPAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Invisible Guests?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Invisible Guests hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Invisible Guests?

20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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