The Masquerade Ball · Axel Rudi Pell

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 7:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
7:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 30 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
THE MASQUERADE BALL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 6 sections: 107 keep time, 31 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-146.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Masquerade Ball?

78 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 Masquerade Ball hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 7:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Masquerade Ball?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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