Collapse · Vektor

285 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 11:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
11:02
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 144, 171-183 and 249, and 1 more place -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
COLLAPSE · BAR 171
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 33, 34, 35 and 69 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 33-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 26 sections: 165 keep time, 75 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-183.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AY
PART BN
OUTRO
18 groovesBAYFBNAV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Collapse?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Collapse hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 11:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 30 sittings, about 27 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 Collapse?

23 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 16, 23, 24, 33, 34, 35 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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