Codex · Veil Of Maya

171 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 2:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 23-32, and 25 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
CODEX · BAR 139
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 55 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 15 sections: 58 keep time, 61 are fills, 32 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-32.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLBAFAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Codex?

210 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Codex hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Codex?

23 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 55 more.

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