Initium Aeternitatis · Martyr (NO)

213 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-89, 93 and 95-96, and 5 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
INITIUM AETERNITATIS · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 29, 30 and 18 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 24 are fills, 18 are stops and 79 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-40.

PART A
PART H
PART K
PART O
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS8OTHA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Initium Aeternitatis?

190 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 Initium Aeternitatis hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Initium Aeternitatis?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 29, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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