Elegy · Architects

69 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 41-47 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
ELEGY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 5 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 40 keep time, 11 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKRBDG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elegy?

125 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 Elegy hard to play on drums?

60 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elegy?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 24 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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