Crimson (Part I) · Edge Of Sanity

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 79-81, and 2 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
CRIMSON (PART I) · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 26 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 54 keep time, 34 are fills, 15 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-72.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
11 groovesBWS11IR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crimson (Part I)?

165 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 Crimson (Part I) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

129 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Crimson (Part I)?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 9, 17, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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