Atlas · Battles

240 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 7:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
7:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 61-68 and 70-77, and 3 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ATLAS · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 59 and 205.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 16 sections: 188 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-34.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S7
PART R
PART U
PART V
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesDNBUR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atlas?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Atlas hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Atlas?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 43, 59 and 205.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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