Initiation · Crown The Empire

157 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 73-79 and 81-88, and 3 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
INITIATION · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 17 sections: 90 keep time, 30 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART G
PART S7
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRGTACK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Initiation?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Initiation hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Initiation?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 23, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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