What Lies Below - DOOM: The Dark Ages · Finishing Move Inc.

141 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 11 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WHAT LIES BELOW - DOOM: THE DARK AGES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 36, 47 and 17 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 49-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 20 sections: 56 keep time, 23 are fills, 34 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-108.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART S15
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesCS15S19ALS8+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Lies Below - DOOM: The Dark Ages?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is What Lies Below - DOOM: The Dark Ages 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 What Lies Below - DOOM: The Dark Ages?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 20, 36, 47 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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