Wrath Of The Tyrant · Emperor

142 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-49 and 51, and 1 more place -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WRATH OF THE TYRANT · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 30 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-37.

CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART W
PART Z
PART W
PART Z
PART AF
PART AG
PART AF
BREAK
11 groovesBPZAFI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrath Of The Tyrant?

150 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 The Tyrant hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 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 The Tyrant?

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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