Armamentarium drum version · Neaera

185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 49-55 and 57-63, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ARMAMENTARIUM DRUM VERSION · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 17 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 17 sections: 131 keep time, 23 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART C
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
9 groovesACFJN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armamentarium drum version?

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 Armamentarium drum version hard to play on drums?

64 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?

185 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Armamentarium drum version?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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