a grave soul (now run) · Exedious

48 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
A GRAVE SOUL (NOW RUN) · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 48.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 48
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 37 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is a grave soul (now run)?

164 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 a grave soul (now run) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 a grave soul (now run)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 48 BARS ANALYSED
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