Elegy · As I Lay Dying

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 32, and 11 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ELEGY · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 72, 118, 130 and 146.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 13 sections: 174 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-202.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIHBAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elegy?

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 Elegy 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 72, 118, 130 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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