Acedia · Obliviscent

195 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-55, 58-63 and 180-185, and 1 more place -- 13.4% 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
ACEDIA · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 21 sections: 112 keep time, 32 are fills, 18 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART J
CHORUS
PART W
PART AD
PART AI
OUTRO 2
17 groovesRJWMAB+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acedia?

155 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 Acedia hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 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 Acedia?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 14, 16, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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