Mother Cosmos · Chiliasm

251 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-12 and 19, and 23 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
MOTHER COSMOS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 18, 20, 22 and 60 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 30 sections: 135 keep time, 66 are fills, 13 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 187-199.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S16
CHORUS 7
PART D
CHORUS 8
13 groovesBDS16WS30+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mother Cosmos?

230 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 Mother Cosmos hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Mother Cosmos?

32 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 18, 20, 22 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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