Katharsis · Dysmn

148 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 26, and 27 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
KATHARSIS · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 17, 21, 27 and 29 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 19 sections: 81 keep time, 35 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-61.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART AG
OUTRO
12 groovesGHPAAG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Katharsis?

165 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 Katharsis hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Katharsis?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 17, 21, 27 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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