Wall Of Skulls · Judiciary

99 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WALL OF SKULLS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 32 are fills, 22 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-77.

PART G
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART S6
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesOGAES6L+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wall Of Skulls?

155 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 Wall Of Skulls hard to play on drums?

47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wall Of Skulls?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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