Amongst The Low And Empty · Signs Of The Swarm

131 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AMONGST THE LOW AND EMPTY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 108 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 110-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 6 sections: 27 keep time, 14 are fills and 89 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
6 groovesS3S4BKS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Amongst The Low And Empty?

140 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 Amongst The Low And Empty hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Amongst The Low And Empty?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 108 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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