Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death · Blackbraid

173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 43-49 and 75-81, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WARDRUMS AT DAWN ON THE DAY OF MY DEATH · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 21 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 21 sections: 121 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-65.

PART B
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART S
PART AC
PART X
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDFSAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death?

185 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 Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of my Death?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 18, 34, 42, 50, 66 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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