Giants Among Common Men · Jamies Elsewhere

107 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-51, 53 and 55, and 3 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GIANTS AMONG COMMON MEN · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 49 keep time, 30 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

PART H
CHORUS
PART U
PART AI
11 groovesWHUAIC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Giants Among Common Men?

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

Is Giants Among Common Men 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Giants Among Common Men?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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