The Return Of Darkness And Evil · Behemoth

164 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-35 and 41-43, and 6 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
THE RETURN OF DARKNESS AND EVIL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 40, 44 and 21 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 15 sections: 119 keep time, 27 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesENHAO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Return Of Darkness And Evil?

142 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 Return Of Darkness And Evil hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Return Of Darkness And Evil?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 40, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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