Treacherous Gods · Ensiferum

179 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 62-67, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TREACHEROUS GODS · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 53, 121, 163 and 171.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 163 · LANDS ON BAR 164
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 171 · LANDS ON BAR 172
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 23 sections: 127 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-84.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
16 groovesMIAJCU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Treacherous Gods?

140 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 Treacherous Gods hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 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 Treacherous Gods?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 53, 121, 163 and 171.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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