Enigma · Selective Mutism

205 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 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
205
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-77 and 123-138 -- 15.9% 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
ENIGMA · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 20 sections: 146 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-205.

PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AC
PART AE
OUTRO 2
15 groovesRUANAK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enigma?

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 Enigma hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 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?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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