PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION · FINAL RESTING PLACE

137 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 14-16, and 4 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 31 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 18 sections: 64 keep time, 38 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-74.

CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBODVJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION?

155 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 PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION hard to play on drums?

53 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 PRELUDE TO EXTINCTION?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 23 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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