Eclipse brutal · Álex

182 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 6-7 and 11-12, and 5 more places -- 8.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ECLIPSE BRUTAL · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 60 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 25-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 20 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 66 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART H
PART A
PART H
PART Z
PART Z
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAEHAZQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eclipse brutal?

180 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 Eclipse brutal hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Eclipse brutal?

10 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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