Artifacts of the Black Rain · In Flames

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 8 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ARTIFACTS OF THE BLACK RAIN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 24, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 15 sections: 86 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-97.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAGOP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Artifacts of the Black Rain?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Artifacts of the Black Rain hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Artifacts of the Black Rain?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 24, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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