Metamorphosis · Luna Sea

227 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-29, and 15 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
METAMORPHOSIS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 39 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 24 sections: 141 keep time, 46 are fills, 6 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AE
CHORUS 5
PART Y
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
15 groovesDHYAWAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metamorphosis?

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 Metamorphosis hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Metamorphosis?

20 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 36 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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