Eternal Descent · Composers of MSB

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-11 and 13-15, and 19 more places -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ETERNAL DESCENT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 2 sections: 96 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-100.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Descent?

120 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 Eternal Descent hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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