Barren and Breathless Macrocosm · Shadow Of Intent

139 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 13.3% 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
BARREN AND BREATHLESS MACROCOSM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 22 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 17 sections: 77 keep time, 29 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-127.

CHORUS
PART L
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBAUAIPV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Barren and Breathless Macrocosm?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Barren and Breathless Macrocosm hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Barren and Breathless Macrocosm?

20 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 9, 15, 17, 19, 21 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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