Entropic Conformity · Hemlok

136 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 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
136
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60-67 and 93-100 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ENTROPIC CONFORMITY · BARS 60-61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 18, 19, 38 and 9 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 87-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 70 keep time, 15 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-103.

PART C
PART F
PART L
PART N
PART L
PART N
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS15QLNC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Entropic Conformity?

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 Entropic Conformity hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Entropic Conformity?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 14, 15, 18, 19, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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