Transilvanian Hunger · Darkthrone

201 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 65-80 and 97-120, and 2 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TRANSILVANIAN HUNGER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 184.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 184 · LANDS ON BAR 185
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 7 sections: 193 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-183.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Transilvanian Hunger?

138 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 Transilvanian Hunger hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

201 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Transilvanian Hunger?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 184.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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