Prayer Position · Periphery

162 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 215 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-97 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
PRAYER POSITION · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 33, 36 and 14 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-97.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART AB
PART AE
BREAK
6 groovesS9CFAEL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prayer Position?

215 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Prayer Position hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Prayer Position?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 33, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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