Close Minded Failure · Solstice

206 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14-16 and 26-32, and 7 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
CLOSE MINDED FAILURE · BAR 15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 30 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 21 sections: 138 keep time, 36 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-78.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART AT
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEWBEACAT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close Minded Failure?

195 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 Close Minded Failure hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 33 sittings, about 24 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 Close Minded Failure?

23 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 21, 25 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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