The Skies Were Filled With Fire · Suffokate

199 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 138 and 140-170 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE SKIES WERE FILLED WITH FIRE · BARS 140-141
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 18 sections: 170 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-170.

PART A
PART L
PART P
PART R
PART AD
CHORUS
16 groovesAIADALV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Skies Were Filled With Fire?

130 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 Skies Were Filled With Fire hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Skies Were Filled With Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

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