Erase · Gorefest

205 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-24, 27-28 and 42-48, and 5 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ERASE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 31 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 15 sections: 117 keep time, 37 are fills, 30 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-65.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesLDYAGQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Erase?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Erase hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Erase?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 31 more.

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

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