Hands That Mold · Dystopia

163 bars, 9:19, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PunkMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
9:19
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-33 and 39 -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
HANDS THAT MOLD · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41 and 32 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 40-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 49-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 17 sections: 93 keep time, 38 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-35.

CHORUS
PART AI
PART BC
PART BC
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCBCBNAIAR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hands That Mold?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hands That Mold hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 9:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Hands That Mold?

22 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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