Celestial Elixir · Haken

469 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 16:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
469
LENGTH
16:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 136-142, 144-149 and 174, and 9 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 · 116 BPM
CELESTIAL ELIXIR · BAR 136
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

47 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 2, 10, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 84 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

44 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

469 bars across 38 sections: 268 keep time, 91 are fills, 49 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-129.

PART G
CHORUS
PART BX
CHORUS 3
32 groovesAQBXGBKDW+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Elixir?

116 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 Celestial Elixir hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

469 bars, about 16:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 184 exercises over 55 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 Celestial Elixir?

47 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 2, 10, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 84 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 469 BARS ANALYSED
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