The Kiss Of Judas · Stratovarius

184 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 45-51 and 53-59, and 5 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE KISS OF JUDAS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 43, 44, 52, 60, 80 and 15 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 21 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-20.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCAAAMO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Kiss Of Judas?

127 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 Kiss Of Judas hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Kiss Of Judas?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 40, 43, 44, 52, 60, 80 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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