Celestial Enmity · Cascading Misery

287 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CELESTIAL ENMITY · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 26-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 57-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 19 sections: 213 keep time, 39 are fills, 10 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 234-275.

CHORUS
PART R
PART AE
PART AF
PART AE
PART AF
PART AL
PART AM
CHORUS 2
11 groovesAAFAEABR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Enmity?

130 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 Enmity hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 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 Celestial Enmity?

10 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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