Akróasis · Obscura

231 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 35-41 and 43-44, and 8 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 218 BPM
AKRÓASIS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 21 sections: 165 keep time, 33 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-138.

CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART AT
11 groovesCAEATFU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Akróasis?

218 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 Akróasis hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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 Akróasis?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 10, 26, 33, 34, 45, 46 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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