Pillar IV: Head of Power · Ancient Malware

505 bars, 32:09, at 57 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
57 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
505
LENGTH
32:09
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 504-505 and 510-553 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 57 BPM
PILLAR IV: HEAD OF POWER · BARS 504-505
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 55 more.

LOOP · 57 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 57 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

558 bars across 52 sections: 368 keep time, 63 are fills, 50 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 511-552.

CHORUS 2
OUTRO
43 groovesBMGSFJCEZ+38Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pillar IV: Head of Power?

57 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pillar IV: Head of Power hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

505 bars, about 32:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 188 exercises over 56 sittings, about 26 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 Pillar IV: Head of Power?

25 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 505 BARS ANALYSED
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