A Land Forlorn (4/4) · Dissection

311 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 5:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-7 and 19-20, and 33 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
A LAND FORLORN (4/4) · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 55 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

311 bars across 26 sections: 166 keep time, 61 are fills, 50 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 239-260.

PART Y
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART BG
CHORUS 7
PART BU
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCYCDBUT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Land Forlorn (4/4)?

215 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 A Land Forlorn (4/4) hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 114 exercises over 40 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 A Land Forlorn (4/4)?

30 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED
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