Consume Guitar Playthrough · Polaris

142 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 59, and 1 more place -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
CONSUME GUITAR PLAYTHROUGH · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 17 sections: 79 keep time, 27 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-132.

PART K
PART AG
PART AN
PART AZ
PART BD
OUTRO
16 groovesAAGKANV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Consume Guitar Playthrough?

138 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 Consume Guitar Playthrough 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Consume Guitar Playthrough?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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