The Sails Of Charon · Scorpions

107 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 17 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
THE SAILS OF CHARON · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 74, 80, 86, 90 and 106.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-35.

PART B
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKFHBQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sails Of Charon?

111 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 Sails Of Charon hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Sails Of Charon?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 74, 80, 86, 90 and 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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