INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE · Balmora

148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 99-101 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 10, 12, 14, 20, 40 and 29 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 35 are fills, 19 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-101.

PART D
PART I
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AR
PART AY
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTDBGARI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 INHERITANCE & SOLITUDE?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 2, 10, 12, 14, 20, 40 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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