Flower Of Death · Calamity

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-23, and 14 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FLOWER OF DEATH · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 34, 35 and 26 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 78 keep time, 32 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKOAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flower Of Death?

150 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 Flower Of Death hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Flower Of Death?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 24, 34, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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