Meridian · Andromida

178 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-20, 23-24 and 27-28, and 4 more places -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
MERIDIAN · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 45 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 17-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time, 51 are fills and 62 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-95.

CHORUS
PART K
PART U
PART X
PART AA
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFUKADAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meridian?

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

Is Meridian hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Meridian?

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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