asura · Cö Shu Nie

74 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 1:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-23 and 58-64 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
ASURA · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 27 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 26 keep time, 33 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
6 groovesLRS2PS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is asura?

179 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 asura hard to play on drums?

58 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?

74 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 asura?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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