Coma · Numenorean

183 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 33-35 and 37-39, and 10 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COMA · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 30 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 12 sections: 105 keep time, 36 are fills and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-81.

PART A
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesHYS11ZA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma?

140 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 Coma hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Coma?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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