Colony · In Flames

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 6 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
COLONY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 17 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 16 sections: 84 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-9.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART Q
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDIKO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colony?

100 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 Colony hard to play on drums?

58 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?

122 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Colony?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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