mathcore · Colka

133 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 9 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MATHCORE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 37, 38, 60, 61 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 47 keep time, 13 are fills, 36 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART R
PART W
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesCS8FWJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is mathcore?

170 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 mathcore hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 mathcore?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 37, 38, 60, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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