A Land Forlorn · Dissection

189 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 5:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-71, 73-74 and 118, and 2 more places -- 8.3% 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
A LAND FORLORN · BARS 69-70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 38 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 44 are fills, 3 are stops and 57 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART AI
BREAK
11 groovesS15JBEAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Land Forlorn?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 1, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 38 more.

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