Forsake Me This Mortal Coil · Order From Chaos

223 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 111-113, 115-117 and 119-120, and 18 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FORSAKE ME THIS MORTAL COIL · BAR 111
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 90, 94, 98, 106 and 22 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 26 sections: 156 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 143-153.

PART S17
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AG
CHORUS 3
12 groovesQIBFAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Forsake Me This Mortal Coil?

165 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 Forsake Me This Mortal Coil hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 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 Forsake Me This Mortal Coil?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 90, 94, 98, 106 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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