In Summary Of What I Am · Misery Signals

171 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 22-24, and 3 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
IN SUMMARY OF WHAT I AM · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 12, 20, 21 and 56 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 62 are fills, 9 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-116.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART AU
PART AX
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesOEBAAUC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Summary Of What I Am?

164 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 In Summary Of What I Am hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 In Summary Of What I Am?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 7, 12, 20, 21 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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