As Above So Below · Behemoth

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 70 and 74, and 3 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
AS ABOVE SO BELOW · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 26 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 81 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-127.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
PART W
PART U
PART AD
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesEIUWQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Above So Below?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 As Above So Below hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 As Above So Below?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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