Artifacts · Fallujah

293 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 6:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
293
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 34-35, and 5 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
ARTIFACTS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 73 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

293 bars across 25 sections: 119 keep time, 79 are fills, 49 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART Z
PART Z
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART BJ
PART S20
PART BU
14 groovesEZABUBJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Artifacts?

192 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 Artifacts hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

293 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Artifacts?

25 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 293 BARS ANALYSED
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