Full Anticosmic Overload · Obscura

209 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 3 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 224 BPM
FULL ANTICOSMIC OVERLOAD · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 36 more.

LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 24 sections: 108 keep time, 42 are fills, 7 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-141.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
16 groovesEBS24MS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Full Anticosmic Overload?

224 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 Full Anticosmic Overload hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 29 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 Full Anticosmic Overload?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 36 more.

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