As the World Caves In · Arranged by Grayson Lawrence

53 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-12 and 31-34 -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
AS THE WORLD CAVES IN · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 6 sections: 41 keep time and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAJFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As the World Caves In?

76 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 As the World Caves In hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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