The Necromancer · Castle Crashers

86 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 41-43 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE NECROMANCER · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 78.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 15 sections: 60 keep time, 2 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-35.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDFBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Necromancer?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Necromancer hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Necromancer?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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