Ataraxia · fromjoy

160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 16 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ATARAXIA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 36 are fills, 12 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-121.

PART J
PART N
PART P
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS10NJMP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ataraxia?

180 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 Ataraxia hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Ataraxia?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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