An Interlude · Atreyu

35 bars, 1:52, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
35
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 3 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
AN INTERLUDE · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 26.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

35 bars across 7 sections: 26 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECGAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Interlude?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is An Interlude hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

35 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in An Interlude?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 26.

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