Planets Collide · Crowbar

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 20 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
PLANETS COLLIDE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 31, 32, 34 and 10 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 89 keep time, 16 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGQDEO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Planets Collide?

103 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 Planets Collide hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Planets Collide?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 31, 32, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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