The Shrine Of Mad Laughter · Deathspell Omega

386 bars at 261 BPM -- fast, and 6:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
261 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
386
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 17-20, and 28 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 261 BPM
THE SHRINE OF MAD LAUGHTER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 91 more.

LOOP · 261 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 261 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 261 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

386 bars across 26 sections: 193 keep time, 97 are fills, 16 are stops and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 226-252.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
BREAK
CHORUS 5
PART BA
CHORUS 7
BREAK 3
14 groovesBS9BAYAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shrine Of Mad Laughter?

261 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Shrine Of Mad Laughter hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

386 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Shrine Of Mad Laughter?

23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 91 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 386 BARS ANALYSED
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