The Son Of The Dark Lord · Boreal Symphony

252 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10, and 36 more places -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE SON OF THE DARK LORD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 19, 49, 125, 187, 188 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 187-188 · LANDS ON BAR 189 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 212 · LANDS ON BAR 213
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

265 bars across 21 sections: 187 keep time, 7 are fills, 8 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 241-263.

PART B
PART B
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 6
BREAK 4
OUTRO
9 groovesCBFJS20+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Son Of The Dark Lord?

150 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 Son Of The Dark Lord hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Son Of The Dark Lord?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 19, 49, 125, 187, 188 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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