The Pentagram Burns · Satyricon

172 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 45-47 and 49, and 11 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE PENTAGRAM BURNS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 58 and 17 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 8 sections: 117 keep time, 24 are fills, 16 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-161.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCMFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Pentagram Burns?

125 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 Pentagram Burns hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pentagram Burns?

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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