Natural Disaster · Tesseract

238 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84, 86 and 89, and 13 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
NATURAL DISASTER · BAR 89
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 33 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 1-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 17 sections: 114 keep time, 39 are fills, 46 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 175-189.

PART H
PART I
PART AF
PART Z
CHORUS
PART BD
BREAK 2
PART BJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAQBMBIBJH+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natural Disaster?

164 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 Natural Disaster hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Natural Disaster?

13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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