XVIII · Mystic Whore

161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 18.8% 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
XVIII · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 15 are fills, 23 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-41.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHLRCF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is XVIII?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 XVIII hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 XVIII?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 46, 58, 70, 74, 78 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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