Collapse · Deals Death

170 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 23 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
COLLAPSE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 60, 64, 106, 112, 118 and 5 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 10 sections: 138 keep time, 11 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-159.

PART B
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHBJA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Collapse?

210 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Collapse hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Collapse?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 60, 64, 106, 112, 118 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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