Collision · As I Lay Dying

142 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36, 53-60 and 77-92, and 5 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
COLLISION · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Collision?

180 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 Collision hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Collision?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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