Into Despair · Currents

164 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 15 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
INTO DESPAIR · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 48, 52, 56 and 12 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 23 sections: 67 keep time, 18 are fills, 32 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART J
PART R
PART U
PART AF
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
16 groovesDJS1AFU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into Despair?

174 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 Into Despair hard to play on drums?

57 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Into Despair?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 48, 52, 56 and 12 more.

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