Artery Records Could Never · Thus Spoke Zarathustra

153 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-13 and 18-21, and 5 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ARTERY RECORDS COULD NEVER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 47, 48, 49, 55, 57 and 14 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 26 sections: 99 keep time, 20 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-153.

PART F
PART M
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHBQMF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Artery Records Could Never?

200 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 Artery Records Could Never hard to play on drums?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Artery Records Could Never?

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 47, 48, 49, 55, 57 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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