Architects of Extinction · Psycroptic

148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ARCHITECTS OF EXTINCTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 47 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 53 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-122.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART S6
PART AR
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDARS6I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Architects of Extinction?

170 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 Architects of Extinction hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 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 Architects of Extinction?

22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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