Habitual Line-Stepper · Periphery

402 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 6:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
402
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-113 and 250-280 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
HABITUAL LINE-STEPPER · BAR 251
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 71 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

402 bars across 20 sections: 194 keep time, 77 are fills, 79 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 219-248.

PART B
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART BC
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAJBCAKBQB+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Habitual Line-Stepper?

205 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 Habitual Line-Stepper hard to play on drums?

59 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

402 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Habitual Line-Stepper?

22 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 402 BARS ANALYSED
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