Confined · As I Lay Dying

129 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 37-44 and 116, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CONFINED · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 36 and 12 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 93 keep time, 18 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
PART G
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
PART G
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSAGHQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Confined?

180 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 Confined hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Confined?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 36 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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