The Sentinel · Judas Priest

211 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33, and 29 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE SENTINEL · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 98 and 102.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 18 sections: 125 keep time, 5 are fills, 27 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 182-203.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S13
PART W
CHORUS 5
12 groovesEFWSS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sentinel?

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 Sentinel hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Sentinel?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 98 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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