To your brethren in the dark · Satyricon

162 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 20 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
TO YOUR BRETHREN IN THE DARK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 14, 22, 30, 34, 38 and 12 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 18 are fills and 45 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-124.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART K
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAGABUX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To your brethren in the dark?

115 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 To your brethren in the dark hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To your brethren in the dark?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 14, 22, 30, 34, 38 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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