Early Grave · Architects

139 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 33, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
EARLY GRAVE · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 47 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-118.

CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART J
PART O
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesBOJZAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Early Grave?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Early Grave hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Early Grave?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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