Dystopia‎ · Tesseract

168 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 7-8 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
DYSTOPIA‎ · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 101 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 2 sections: 34 keep time, 107 are fills, 3 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-32.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dystopia‎?

118 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 Dystopia‎ hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dystopia‎?

8 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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