Eternity Too Short · Decapitated

238 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-46, 48-50 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 20.6% 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
ETERNITY TOO SHORT · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 24, 25 and 39 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 17 sections: 162 keep time, 45 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-130.

PART B
CHORUS
PART W
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AN
PART W
PART B
OUTRO
6 groovesQBWANG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eternity Too Short?

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 Eternity Too Short hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Eternity Too Short?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 24, 25 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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