A Tormented Reality · Hazzerd

157 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 41-43 and 78-80, and 8 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 187 BPM
A TORMENTED REALITY · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 19, 20, 36 and 19 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 12 sections: 100 keep time, 25 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-136.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGALTI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Tormented Reality?

187 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 Tormented Reality hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Tormented Reality?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 19, 20, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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