Wrath Of A Warchild · Altaria

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-39, 57-71 and 73 -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WRATH OF A WARCHILD · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 40, 48, 56, 72, 74 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 83 keep time, 8 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCS1DS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrath Of A Warchild?

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 Wrath Of A Warchild hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 Wrath Of A Warchild?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 40, 48, 56, 72, 74 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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