Elusive Reverence · Beyond Creation

139 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 17, and 8 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ELUSIVE REVERENCE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 15 and 78 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 12 sections: 40 keep time, 84 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

CHORUS
PART G
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AL
PART AR
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesFARQACG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elusive Reverence?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Elusive Reverence hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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 Elusive Reverence?

18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 15 and 78 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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