Cimmerian Codex · Solstice

275 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
8:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57-58 and 61-63, and 15 more places -- 16% 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
CIMMERIAN CODEX · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 26, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

275 bars across 21 sections: 137 keep time, 39 are fills and 71 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART T
PART X
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAEJX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cimmerian Codex?

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 Cimmerian Codex hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 8:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Cimmerian Codex?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 24, 26, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED
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