Unholy Quest · Athgowla

121 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-25 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
UNHOLY QUEST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 107-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 10 are fills, 16 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-36.

PART D
CHORUS
PART U
PART O
PART X
PART AG
OUTRO
15 groovesJDXOR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unholy Quest?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Unholy Quest hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 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 Unholy Quest?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 114 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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