Eternal Refuge · Whitechapel

108 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7 and 9-15 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ETERNAL REFUGE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 42, 66 and 12 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

PART A
PART D
PART H
PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSDAHQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternal Refuge?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Refuge hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Eternal Refuge?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 23, 42, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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