Dasein · First Fragment

240 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 37-38 and 81-82, and 6 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DASEIN · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 69 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 24 sections: 117 keep time, 75 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-55.

PART B
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesSMAHKB+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dasein?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dasein hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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 Dasein?

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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