Divination · Providence

198 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39-40 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DIVINATION · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 17 sections: 97 keep time, 60 are fills, 21 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
PART AK
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesKPAADT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Divination?

125 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 Divination hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 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 Divination?

18 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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