Kinetic · Arcturus

125 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-50, 52 and 55, 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 · 111 BPM
KINETIC · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 35, 36, 45 and 11 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 17 are fills, 8 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-58.

PART D
PART G
PART M
PART C
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AB
BREAK
PART AI
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWABGS9M+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kinetic?

111 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 Kinetic hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 22 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 Kinetic?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 32, 35, 36, 45 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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