Flattening of Emotions · Death

171 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-31, 34-35 and 38-39, and 10 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FLATTENING OF EMOTIONS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 29 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 19 sections: 100 keep time, 35 are fills, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-130.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AW
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesLS19ASAK+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flattening of Emotions?

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

Is Flattening of Emotions hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 26 sittings, about 23 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 Flattening of Emotions?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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