Close To A World Below · Immolation

302 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 10:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
10:00
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-56, 61-68 and 87-94, and 3 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CLOSE TO A WORLD BELOW · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 25 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

302 bars across 35 sections: 180 keep time, 31 are fills, 17 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-146.

PART T
PART AC
PART AH
BREAK 4
18 groovesOTS35CQ+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Close To A World Below?

135 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 Close To A World Below hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 10:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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 Close To A World Below?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 302 BARS ANALYSED
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