Eternal · Paradise Lost

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32-34 and 36-40, and 5 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ETERNAL · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 11, 21, 23, 41, 45 and 16 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 22 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-40.

PART C
PART H
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART Q
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNLCHQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Eternal?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 11, 21, 23, 41, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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