Ants of The Sky · Between the Buried and Me.

449 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 10:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
449
LENGTH
10:03
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 322-337 -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ANTS OF THE SKY · BARS 322-323
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

53 fills to learn, played 118 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 112 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

49 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

449 bars across 53 sections: 227 keep time, 118 are fills, 24 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 367-384.

CHORUS
48 groovesDMFNBUAKAG+43Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ants of The Sky?

180 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 Ants of The Sky hard to play on drums?

85 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?

449 bars, about 10:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 221 exercises over 77 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 Ants of The Sky?

53 fills to learn, played 118 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 112 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 449 BARS ANALYSED
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