When Satan Rules His World · Deicide

103 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 2:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 4 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WHEN SATAN RULES HIS WORLD · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-72.

PART A
PART F
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesOAS8FI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Satan Rules His World?

180 BPM, in 6/4, 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 When Satan Rules His World hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 When Satan Rules His World?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 18, 22, 26, 28 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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