Mortal After All · Architects

137 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 17 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
MORTAL AFTER ALL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 37 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 14 sections: 51 keep time, 43 are fills, 27 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLAZAAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mortal After All?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Mortal After All hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mortal After All?

17 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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