The Script For My Requiem · Blind Guardian

282 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalJazz / Blues150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 41-42 and 45-46, and 11 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE SCRIPT FOR MY REQUIEM · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23 and 48 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

282 bars across 20 sections: 172 keep time, 54 are fills, 26 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART S1
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AF
CHORUS 5
PART R
8 groovesIRXAFS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Script For My Requiem?

190 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 Script For My Requiem hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Script For My Requiem?

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED
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