On The Shores Of Ithaka · Quo Vadis

338 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
338
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 85-87 and 183-186, and 6 more places -- 6.5% 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
ON THE SHORES OF ITHAKA · BAR 46
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

45 fills to learn, played 151 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 145 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

43 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

338 bars across 31 sections: 131 keep time, 151 are fills, 22 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-124.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART BJ
PART CD
PART W
19 groovesADWAAOCD+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Shores Of Ithaka?

240 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 On The Shores Of Ithaka hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

338 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 128 exercises over 48 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 On The Shores Of Ithaka?

45 fills to learn, played 151 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 145 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 338 BARS ANALYSED
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