Atropos · Periphery

289 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 7:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 42, and 20 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
ATROPOS · BAR 224
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 18-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 65-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 113-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

289 bars across 19 sections: 82 keep time, 70 are fills, 112 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-176.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BL
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTBZYQS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atropos?

163 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 Atropos hard to play on drums?

51 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

289 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 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 Atropos?

8 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED
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