Where Greater Men Have Fallen · Primordial

225 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 45-48 and 53-55, and 10 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WHERE GREATER MEN HAVE FALLEN · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 50, 56, 66 and 24 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 27 sections: 157 keep time, 30 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 193-207.

PART E
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART M
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDERMU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Greater Men Have Fallen?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Where Greater Men Have Fallen hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 Where Greater Men Have Fallen?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 50, 56, 66 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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