Compendium · Elder

375 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 123 BPM, 10:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
375
LENGTH
10:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 18, and 35 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
COMPENDIUM · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 52 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

375 bars across 21 sections: 245 keep time, 58 are fills, 35 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 244-323.

PART P
PART P
PART W
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
16 groovesFPWACAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Compendium?

123 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Compendium 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

375 bars, about 10:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Compendium?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 375 BARS ANALYSED
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