Torquemada · Avalanch

254 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 47-51 and 53, and 17 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TORQUEMADA · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 22, 31 and 66 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 26 sections: 121 keep time, 72 are fills, 12 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 181-189.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
BREAK 2
OUTRO
14 groovesILABS22D+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Torquemada?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Torquemada hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Torquemada?

24 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 22, 31 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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