Beneath the Fog · sillyserpent

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7 and 10, and 5 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BENEATH THE FOG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 18 sections: 58 keep time, 34 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-33.

PART B
PART S3
PART P
PART U
PART Y
PART AE
PART AM
PART AT
CHORUS
PART BF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAXATBAEBW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beneath the Fog?

91 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 Beneath the Fog hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beneath the Fog?

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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