The Stargate [Tablet I] · Blood Incantation

393 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 7:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
393
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 161, 166-172 and 174-178, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE STARGATE [TABLET I] · BAR 167
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 94 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 18-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

393 bars across 20 sections: 240 keep time, 100 are fills, 30 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-217.

PART B
PART Q
PART AO
CHORUS
PART BW
PART CK
OUTRO 2
19 groovesAYCKBQAO+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Stargate [Tablet I]?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stargate [Tablet I] hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

393 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 31 sittings, about 28 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 Stargate [Tablet I]?

34 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 94 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 393 BARS ANALYSED
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