Chromatic Horizon · Beyond Creation

81 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 1:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 65-66 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 218 BPM
CHROMATIC HORIZON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 16 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 34 keep time, 22 are fills and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART M
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesDRS8MX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chromatic Horizon?

218 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chromatic Horizon hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Chromatic Horizon?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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