Flatline · Periphery

216 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-65, 68-69 and 72-73, and 5 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 177 BPM
FLATLINE · BARS 64-65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26 and 89 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 15 sections: 69 keep time, 95 are fills, 8 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-172.

PART B
PART C
PART J
CHORUS
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AW
PART S13
BREAK
13 groovesAAJLAWC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flatline?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Flatline hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Flatline?

23 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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