Drowned in Emotion · Caskets

121 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 24-26, and 4 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
DROWNED IN EMOTION · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 27, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 13 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 47-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 48 keep time, 19 are fills, 29 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-39.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART S
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBHVSY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drowned in Emotion?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Drowned in Emotion hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drowned in Emotion?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 27, 43, 47, 48, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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