The Messenger · Bathory

262 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 9:01 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
9:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 78-84 and 94-99, and 5 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE MESSENGER · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 44, 102, 110, 159, 167 and 1 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 23 sections: 179 keep time, 7 are fills, 7 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 235-249.

PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART G
PART S21
OUTRO
10 groovesECGKS21+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Messenger?

115 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 Messenger hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 9:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Messenger?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 44, 102, 110, 159, 167 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
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