Album Song 5 · Hemlok

251 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-28 and 31-32, and 9 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
ALBUM SONG 5 · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 22, 30 and 30 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 23 sections: 131 keep time, 36 are fills, 21 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-183.

PART H
CHORUS
BREAK
PART E
PART BD
OUTRO
14 groovesRES15JBD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Album Song 5?

228 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Album Song 5 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 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 Album Song 5?

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 22, 30 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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