Before The Creation Of Time · Unleashed

164 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 17 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BEFORE THE CREATION OF TIME · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 24 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 10 sections: 105 keep time, 30 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-32.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesARIWOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Before The Creation Of Time?

170 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 Before The Creation Of Time hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Before The Creation Of Time?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 24 more.

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