An Ocean Between Us · As I Lay Dying

184 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
AN OCEAN BETWEEN US · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 26 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 127 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-119.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
9 groovesFNCSU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is An Ocean Between Us?

225 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 An Ocean Between Us hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 An Ocean Between Us?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 39, 40 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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