Coma · Misery Signals

208 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 138-142, 146-150 and 154-158, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
COMA · BARS 139-140
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16 and 64 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 19 sections: 88 keep time, 70 are fills, 15 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-165.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AP
PART AC
PART BJ
PART BR
18 groovesCBRAPBJA+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma?

176 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 Coma 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Coma?

24 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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