Archspire · that riff from "Limb of Leviticus"

25 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 0:38 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 18-24 -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ARCHSPIRE · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 9-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars: 17 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-24.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Archspire?

160 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 Archspire hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Archspire?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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