As the World Caves In · Matt Maltese

54 bars, 3:22, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 19-20 and 36, and 3 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 63 BPM
AS THE WORLD CAVES IN · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 18, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 4 sections: 23 keep time, 17 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As the World Caves In?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

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

40 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 As the World Caves In?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 18, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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