Threatening Skies · Obituary

88 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15 and 17, and 13 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THREATENING SKIES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 22, 34, 46, 54 and 66.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Threatening Skies?

150 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 Threatening Skies hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

88 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Threatening Skies?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 22, 34, 46, 54 and 66.

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