Beneath Broken Earth · Paradise Lost

73 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 5:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 17-19, and 1 more place -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BENEATH BROKEN EARTH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 13 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 21 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS7FKQS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beneath Broken Earth?

80 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Beneath Broken Earth hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Beneath Broken Earth?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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