業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) · Dir En Grey

162 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 76-78, 80-82 and 84-86, and 5 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
業 (KARMA) THE UNRAVELING (2013) · BARS 76-77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 67 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 4-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 73 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-88.

PART B
PART J
PART W
PART AK
CHORUS
PART AV
PART AK
CHORUS 2
PART AV
12 groovesAPAVAKJB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013)?

135 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 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

162 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 業 (Karma) THE UNRAVELING (2013)?

15 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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