Charging The Void · Vektor

428 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 8:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
428
LENGTH
8:26
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 195-196, 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 · 202 BPM
CHARGING THE VOID · BAR 196
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 102 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

428 bars across 27 sections: 269 keep time, 108 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 344-374.

PART L
PART U
PART AI
PART CG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesGLYACV+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Charging The Void?

202 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 Charging The Void hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

428 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 125 exercises over 39 sittings, about 27 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 Charging The Void?

33 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 102 more.

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