Beneath The Surface · As Blood Runs Black

287 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 33 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BENEATH THE SURFACE · BAR 226
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 41 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 18 sections: 177 keep time, 47 are fills, 42 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 198-207.

PART D
CHORUS
PART AD
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesRUWDAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beneath The Surface?

240 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 Beneath The Surface hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 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 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 The Surface?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 41 more.

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