A GRAVE SOUL (NOW, RUN) · Forsaken

45 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:06 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
45
LENGTH
1:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-18 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
A GRAVE SOUL (NOW, RUN) · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 28, 32, 33 and 1 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 6 sections: 33 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-6.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGAMF+1Fill 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?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 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 7 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 28, 32, 33 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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