Bedlam · Whitechapel

126 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-16 and 36-42, and 4 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEDLAM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 17, 23, 28 and 23 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 71 keep time, 29 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-125.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesGMAADC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bedlam?

140 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 Bedlam hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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 Bedlam?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 17, 23, 28 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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