Theatre Of Pain · Blind Guardian

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 23-30 and 35-42, and 15 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
THEATRE OF PAIN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 6 sections: 78 keep time, 27 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-101.

PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGLNDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Theatre Of Pain?

122 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 Theatre Of Pain hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Theatre Of Pain?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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