Of Adornment and Disgust · Skycamefalling

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-23 and 57-63 -- 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 · 140 BPM
OF ADORNMENT AND DISGUST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 30, 31, 39, 44, 49 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 11 are fills, 10 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-103.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S5
CHORUS
PART H
PART B
PART H
PART S10
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEHBKS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Of Adornment and Disgust?

140 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 Of Adornment and Disgust hard to play on drums?

57 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 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 Of Adornment and Disgust?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 30, 31, 39, 44, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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