Myopic · Hemlok

122 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 39 and 41, and 14 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
MYOPIC · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 85 and 119.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 99 keep time, 4 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-114.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
PART E
CHORUS 2
8 groovesIELCN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Myopic?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Myopic hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Myopic?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 85 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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