Pale Tongue · Darko US

115 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-9 and 27-29, and 3 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
PALE TONGUE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 34, 107 and 111.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 16 sections: 85 keep time, 4 are fills, 10 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AA
PART B
PART K
OUTRO
12 groovesEBKVAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pale Tongue?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pale Tongue 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pale Tongue?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 34, 107 and 111.

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