Natural Selection · Rings Of Saturn

231 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28, 32 and 36, and 10 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
NATURAL SELECTION · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22 and 105 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 18 sections: 79 keep time, 111 are fills, 19 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-80.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AR
PART S11
PART BG
OUTRO 2
14 groovesTBGARS11P+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natural Selection?

240 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 Selection hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Natural Selection?

17 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 22 and 105 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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