Amidst the Afterbirth · Scattered Remnants

232 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 48-50 and 52-53, and 4 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
AMIDST THE AFTERBIRTH · BAR 26
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13 and 42 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 25 sections: 134 keep time, 48 are fills, 10 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-134.

PART B
PART AN
PART AR
PART AT
CHORUS
PART BI
20 groovesAWBNARV+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amidst the Afterbirth?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Amidst the Afterbirth hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 32 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 Amidst the Afterbirth?

28 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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