Cain · Tiamat

179 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 39 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
CAIN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 94 and 147.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 147 · LANDS ON BAR 148
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 13 sections: 94 keep time, 2 are fills, 44 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDS1S11F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cain?

140 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Cain hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cain?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 94 and 147.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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