Center Of The Universe · Kamelot

255 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-38, 43 and 49-50, and 12 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 44, 56, 82 and 11 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 19 sections: 183 keep time, 17 are fills, 23 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 131-156.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesKDGVO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Center Of The Universe?

170 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 Center Of The Universe hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Center Of The Universe?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 44, 56, 82 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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