Valley Of The Mountains D Standerd · Denial

297 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 6:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS D STANDERD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 9, 33, 41, 65, 66, 67 and 52 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 65-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 45 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

297 bars across 15 sections: 216 keep time, 58 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-176.

PART B
PART F
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
PART B
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPFBAAW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valley Of The Mountains D Standerd?

175 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 Mountains D Standerd hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

297 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Valley Of The Mountains D Standerd?

8 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 9, 33, 41, 65, 66, 67 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 297 BARS ANALYSED
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