Isolation · Sepultura

215 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-38 and 40-42, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ISOLATION · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 27-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · 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 20 sections: 144 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-148.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART Y
PART Z
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIEVYS1+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Isolation?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Isolation hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 8:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Isolation?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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