Ashes of myself · Reaper

105 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-32 and 51-58 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ASHES OF MYSELF · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 35, 36 and 3 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 14 sections: 57 keep time, 9 are fills, 14 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-100.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART M
BREAK 3
OUTRO
10 groovesDHS12MB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes of myself?

165 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 Ashes of myself hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Ashes of myself?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 35, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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