Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky · Balmora

172 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-16 and 26-32, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
UNDER THE WEIGHT OF A BLACKENED SKY · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 34 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 20 sections: 91 keep time, 42 are fills, 21 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AP
PART AR
OUTRO 2
17 groovesCARAFRA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky?

200 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 Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Under the Weight of a Blackened Sky?

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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