Hearts Frozen Soil Thawed Once More By The Spring Of Rage, Despair And Hopelessness · AFI

23 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 0:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
23
LENGTH
0:30
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 14-20 -- 60.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 187 BPM
HEARTS FROZEN SOIL THAWED ONCE MORE BY THE SPRING OF RAGE, DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 13 and 21.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

23 bars across 3 sections: 15 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hearts Frozen Soil Thawed Once More By The Spring Of Rage, Despair And Hopelessness?

187 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 Hearts Frozen Soil Thawed Once More By The Spring Of Rage, Despair And Hopelessness hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

23 bars, about 0:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hearts Frozen Soil Thawed Once More By The Spring Of Rage, Despair And Hopelessness?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 13 and 21.

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