Coma Of Souls · Kreator

196 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 10 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COMA OF SOULS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 28, 29, 37, 45, 83 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 20 sections: 138 keep time, 20 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART AG
10 groovesPHAGEK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coma Of Souls?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Of Souls hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Of Souls?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 28, 29, 37, 45, 83 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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