First Breath After Coma · Explosions In The Sky

67 bars, 4:24, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-49 and 51-53, and 4 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 61 BPM
FIRST BREATH AFTER COMA · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-66.

PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Breath After Coma?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is First Breath After Coma hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 First Breath After Coma?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

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