Valley Of The Damned · Dragonforce

339 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
339
LENGTH
6:47
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 50-56, 60-61 and 122-128, and 11 more places -- 19.8% 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
VALLEY OF THE DAMNED · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

37 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 8, 14, 16, 24, 32 and 74 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

33 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

339 bars across 29 sections: 204 keep time, 80 are fills, 18 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART F
PART F
PART R
CHORUS 3
9 groovesPRFVB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valley Of The Damned?

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 Valley Of The Damned 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?

339 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 Valley Of The Damned?

37 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 8, 14, 16, 24, 32 and 74 more.

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