Metamorphosis · VAN GALLAHER

244 bars, 12:51, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
12:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 156-158, and 2 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
METAMORPHOSIS · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 20 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

264 bars across 34 sections: 157 keep time, 27 are fills, 39 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 245-254.

PART E
CHORUS
26 groovesALSADAAAG+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metamorphosis?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Metamorphosis hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 12:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 102 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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 Metamorphosis?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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