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Barren and Breathless Macrocosm · Shadow Of Intent

Barren and Breathless Macrocosm · Shadow Of Intent
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EXERCISE 9 OF 84
Fill at bar 17 (a small one)
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0 / 84 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Barren and Breathless Macrocosm on drums

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.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
99/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Barren and Breathless Macrocosm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-38 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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