My Dark Subconscious · Morbid

190 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-130 and 158-188 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
MY DARK SUBCONSCIOUS · BAR 126
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 22, 23, 33, 47, 49 and 13 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 13 sections: 138 keep time, 21 are fills, 16 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 159-188.

PART B
PART F
PART J
PART B
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesYJBUZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Dark Subconscious?

153 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 My Dark Subconscious hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 My Dark Subconscious?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 22, 23, 33, 47, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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