Bakterion · Brou

255 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-94, 127-141 and 199-213 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAKTERION · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 21 sections: 157 keep time, 19 are fills, 45 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-69.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART N
PART L
PART S
PART L
PART A
14 groovesCLSJA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bakterion?

200 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 Bakterion hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Bakterion?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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