Omega · Periphery

380 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
380
LENGTH
8:36
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127, 131 and 133, and 15 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
OMEGA · BAR 127
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 69 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 23-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

380 bars across 29 sections: 196 keep time, 75 are fills, 15 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 331-345.

PART W
CHORUS 3
PART CN
PART S20
22 groovesBIS20WMBW+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Omega?

160 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 Omega hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

380 bars, about 8:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 126 exercises over 47 sittings, about 25 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 Omega?

30 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 380 BARS ANALYSED
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