Enigma · Allegro

188 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 43-49 and 59-62, and 6 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ENIGMA · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 18, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 26 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 16 sections: 125 keep time, 32 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHGEADA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enigma?

170 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 Enigma hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Enigma?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 10, 18, 34, 42, 50, 58 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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