Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory · Disembowelment

167 bars, 12:07, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
12:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-85 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 55 BPM
YOUR PROPHETIC THRONE OF IVORY · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 21 are fills, 7 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-85.

CHORUS
PART N
PART X
PART Y
PART AH
BREAK 2
15 groovesCYNS14AH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 12:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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 Your Prophetic Throne Of Ivory?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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