Compass · Counterparts

224 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63, 65-72 and 149-155, and 2 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
COMPASS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 21, 23, 29, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 26 sections: 89 keep time, 18 are fills, 61 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-74.

PART G
PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
PART S24
21 groovesZGRS24S23+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Compass?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Compass hard to play on drums?

63 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Compass?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 9, 21, 23, 29, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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