And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope · Ne Obliviscaris

368 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 10:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
368
LENGTH
10:56
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
AND PLAGUE FLOWERS THE KALEIDOSCOPE · BARS 18-19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 49, 53, 71, 75, 78, 79 and 82 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 78-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

368 bars across 30 sections: 223 keep time, 88 are fills, 3 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-48.

PART D
PART S
19 groovesPSDANBW+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

368 bars, about 10:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 116 exercises over 43 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 And Plague Flowers The Kaleidoscope?

32 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 49, 53, 71, 75, 78, 79 and 82 more.

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