Effigy · Ministry

119 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-39, and 5 more places -- 77.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 124 BPM
EFFIGY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 40 and 60.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 4 sections: 112 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-39.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Effigy?

124 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 Effigy hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Effigy?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 40 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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