Hymns In Dissonance · Whitechapel

127 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3 and 50, and 2 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
HYMNS IN DISSONANCE · BARS 102-103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 69 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 18-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 32 keep time, 75 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-66.

PART H
CHORUS
PART A
PART AO
PART AW
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
9 groovesSHAAOBI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hymns In Dissonance?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Hymns In Dissonance hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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 Hymns In Dissonance?

20 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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