Fate Told By Truth · Decayed Corpse

5 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 0:11 of playing on ride, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
5
LENGTH
0:11
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3 -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FATE TOLD BY TRUTH · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

10 bars across 3 sections: 5 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-6.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fate Told By Truth?

115 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fate Told By Truth hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

5 bars, about 0:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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