Liminal Cypher · Arch

225 bars at 380 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
380 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-139, 141-142 and 177-179, and 2 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 380 BPM
LIMINAL CYPHER · BAR 177
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 106 more.

LOOP · 380 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 380 BPM
BARS 30-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 380 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 380 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 20 sections: 53 keep time, 113 are fills, 8 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-54.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART BC
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesWNS1AYBC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Liminal Cypher?

380 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 Liminal Cypher hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 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 Liminal Cypher?

25 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 and 106 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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