Desolation · Imminence

132 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-37 and 39-43, and 14 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DESOLATION · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 20, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 23 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 46-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 29 are fills, 15 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFZAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desolation?

130 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 Desolation hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Desolation?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 20, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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