Inanimate · Abysmal Dawn

178 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 41-43, and 16 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
INANIMATE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 30 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 19 sections: 101 keep time, 36 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-116.

PART E
PART E
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART U
CHORUS 5
PART U
OUTRO
7 groovesGUNIE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inanimate?

170 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 Inanimate hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Inanimate?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 26, 28 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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