Embers · Eudialytic

209 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 17-19 and 64, and 5 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
EMBERS · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 41 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 20 sections: 126 keep time, 47 are fills, 10 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 203-212.

CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AE
PART BI
CHORUS 4
PART V
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAAEVBIBA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Embers?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Embers hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Embers?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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