Dystopia new · Iced Earth

252 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 7:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:53
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 63 and 65, and 42 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
DYSTOPIA NEW · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 64, 68, 70 and 24 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 11 sections: 195 keep time, 36 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-95.

CHORUS
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLAAGAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dystopia new?

128 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 Dystopia new hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 7:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Dystopia new?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 31, 32, 40, 64, 68, 70 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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