Fiery Missive (in a silent ocean) · Visible Confusion

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 67-73, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FIERY MISSIVE (IN A SILENT OCEAN) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 13 sections: 85 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-60.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesKXADO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fiery Missive (in a silent ocean)?

140 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 Fiery Missive (in a silent ocean) hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Fiery Missive (in a silent ocean)?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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