Concubine (Accurate Version) · Converge

53 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 1:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 2 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
CONCUBINE (ACCURATE VERSION) · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 9 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 7 sections: 23 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-19.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART F
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHFMQS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Concubine (Accurate Version)?

179 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 Concubine (Accurate Version) hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 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 Concubine (Accurate Version)?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Converge drum parts

EVERY CONVERGE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →