My Beloved, My Despair · Bury Me With You

150 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 36 and 42, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MY BELOVED, MY DESPAIR · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 33 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 19 sections: 76 keep time, 39 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-129.

PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART B
BREAK 2
PART AH
CHORUS 4
11 groovesFBNHAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Beloved, My Despair?

170 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 My Beloved, My Despair hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:31 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 My Beloved, My Despair?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 20, 21, 29 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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