Desolation Of Eden · Chelsea Grin

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 101-103, 105-107 and 109-111, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
DESOLATION OF EDEN · BARS 101-102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23 and 22 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 16 sections: 62 keep time, 28 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-108.

PART F
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAPTPAGL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desolation Of Eden?

92 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 Of Eden hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of Eden?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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