Polymorph · NECROMANCER

140 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-41 and 67-73, and 3 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
POLYMORPH · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 26, 27, 35, 42, 45 and 23 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 12 sections: 89 keep time, 29 are fills, 14 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-100.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFLCQA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Polymorph?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Polymorph hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Polymorph?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 26, 27, 35, 42, 45 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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