Chasm · Flyleaf

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5-10, and 16 more places -- 65.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
CHASM · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars: 31 keep time, 1 is a fill and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chasm?

85 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 Chasm hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Chasm?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.

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