Life Eternal · Mayhem

249 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
LIFE ETERNAL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 52 and 21 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 17 sections: 137 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 66 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-87.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART Q
BREAK 3
OUTRO
BREAK 4
14 groovesHS17AXQA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life Eternal?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Life Eternal hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 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 Life Eternal?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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