Years in Turmoil · Torture

135 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11 and 13-14 -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
YEARS IN TURMOIL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 17 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 23 are fills, 3 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-76.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AS
PART S7
OUTRO
BREAK 4
9 groovesHS9ASCEA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Years in Turmoil?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Years in Turmoil hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Years in Turmoil?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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