Coexistence · Beyond Creation

268 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 213 BPM, 6:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
6:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-71, 73-75 and 77-79, and 1 more place -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 213 BPM
COEXISTENCE · BARS 69-70
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 6, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 62 more.

LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 213 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 16 sections: 100 keep time, 68 are fills, 3 are stops and 79 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-175.

CHORUS
PART V
PART AH
PART BC
PART BH
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesS16JHBOV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coexistence?

213 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Coexistence hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 6:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 Coexistence?

27 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 6, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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