A Problem Yet To Be Solved · Anata

199 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 73-80 and 145-151, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
A PROBLEM YET TO BE SOLVED · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 58 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 13 sections: 111 keep time, 64 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 143-155.

PART A
PART I
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Z
7 groovesOTIAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Problem Yet To Be Solved?

210 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 Problem Yet To Be Solved hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 22 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 A Problem Yet To Be Solved?

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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