Enemy · Bury The Witness

268 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-34, and 15 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ENEMY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 8, 39, 40, 44, 48 and 41 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 17 sections: 197 keep time, 47 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-38.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART R
PART K
PART Y
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesFKACAHY+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enemy?

200 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 Enemy hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 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 Enemy?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 7, 8, 39, 40, 44, 48 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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