Mortal Reminder · Pentakill

155 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 7 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
MORTAL REMINDER · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 36, 40 and 32 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 20 sections: 51 keep time, 38 are fills and 40 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO 2
8 groovesETZCK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mortal Reminder?

167 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 Mortal Reminder hard to play on drums?

56 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Mortal Reminder?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 36, 40 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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