Fractured Reality · Fractality

211 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 15 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
FRACTURED REALITY · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 52, 60 and 26 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 15 sections: 161 keep time, 32 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART N
PART H
PART N
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDNHAW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fractured Reality?

132 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 Fractured Reality hard to play on drums?

64 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 6:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Fractured Reality?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 52, 60 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Fractality drum parts

EVERY FRACTALITY CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →