Antigone · Aephanemer

228 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
ANTIGONE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 64 and 20 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 17 sections: 117 keep time, 26 are fills, 50 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-63.

CHORUS
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAKDWS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Antigone?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Antigone hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 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 Antigone?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 64 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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