Fiend · Coal Chamber

104 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 12 more places -- 77.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FIEND · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 4 sections: 91 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fiend?

130 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 Fiend hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fiend?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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