A Work Of Art · INK - AmyLee

198 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39 and 41, and 18 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
A WORK OF ART · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 46 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 21 sections: 72 keep time, 52 are fills, 29 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-114.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesMDS20AS1+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Work Of Art?

202 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 Work Of Art hard to play on drums?

53 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 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 Work Of Art?

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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