Gloom · SABLE HILLS

143 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 118-124 and 136-137 -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
GLOOM · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 12, 16, 20, 21, 23 and 41 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 57 keep time, 47 are fills, 17 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AL
PART AT
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPVAGCAT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gloom?

160 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 Gloom hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gloom?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 9, 12, 16, 20, 21, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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