The Laws Of Scourge · Sarcófago

127 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 9 more places -- 23.6% 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 LAWS OF SCOURGE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 81-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 25 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKDMFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Laws Of Scourge?

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 Laws Of Scourge hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Laws Of Scourge?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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