A Steady Decline · After The Burial

185 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-34, 43-58 and 77-80, and 1 more place -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
A STEADY DECLINE · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 84, 104, 133 and 168.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 168 · LANDS ON BAR 169
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 16 sections: 120 keep time, 5 are fills, 41 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEAEBDV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Steady Decline?

155 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 Steady Decline hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Steady Decline?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 84, 104, 133 and 168.

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