Incarnated · Obscura

185 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 34 and 36, and 14 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
INCARNATED · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 36 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 24 sections: 105 keep time, 42 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-164.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART AK
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCKFACAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Incarnated?

200 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 Incarnated hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Incarnated?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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