Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown · Blind Guardian

208 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
TRIAL BY THE ARCHON / WIZARD'S CROWN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 91, 95, 120, 122, 124 and 7 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 24 sections: 136 keep time, 13 are fills, 18 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-159.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART Z
OUTRO
17 groovesHLZJF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown?

144 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 Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Trial by the Archon / Wizard's Crown?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 91, 95, 120, 122, 124 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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