I, The Devourer · Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia

162 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 69 and 71-73, and 2 more places -- 9.6% 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
I, THE DEVOURER · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 16, 20, 22, 24, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 20 sections: 64 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 48 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-73.

COUNT-IN
PART D
BREAK 3
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AM
PART AW
PART BK
19 groovesS11YAMBKD+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I, The Devourer?

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 I, The Devourer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I, The Devourer?

18 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 16, 20, 22, 24, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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