Afterlife · Holding Absence

123 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 34-36, and 11 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
AFTERLIFE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 6 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 17 sections: 44 keep time, 12 are fills, 29 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
BREAK
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCSKS15B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Afterlife hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Afterlife?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 59, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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