The Rivers of Avernus · Mors Principium Est, Jori Haukio

176 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 41-55 and 57-63, and 6 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE RIVERS OF AVERNUS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 56, 72 and 5 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 11 sections: 141 keep time, 11 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-159.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMZRK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rivers of Avernus?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rivers of Avernus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Rivers of Avernus?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 32, 56, 72 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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