Valen · Burzum

497 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 9:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
497
LENGTH
9:19
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 65-112 and 145-160, and 6 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
VALEN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

497 bars across 21 sections: 439 keep time, 3 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 402-464.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 6
PART C
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCS13S8A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valen?

160 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Valen hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

497 bars, about 9:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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