Libera (Part I) · Ne Obliviscaris

377 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 13:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
13:05
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-91, 94-95 and 98-99, and 13 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
LIBERA (PART I) · BAR 90
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 37, 38, 47, 48 and 34 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

377 bars across 23 sections: 229 keep time, 40 are fills, 1 is a stop and 80 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-159.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AR
BREAK
16 groovesS23SAMHAR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Libera (Part I)?

143 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 Libera (Part I) hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 13:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 37 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 Libera (Part I)?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 25, 26, 37, 38, 47, 48 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 377 BARS ANALYSED
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