Premonitions · Synestia

165 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
6:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16-17 and 41-44, and 6 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PREMONITIONS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 35, 46 and 24 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 28 sections: 69 keep time, 30 are fills, 22 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-21.

COUNT-IN
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
17 groovesBEULS1+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Premonitions?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Premonitions hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 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 Premonitions?

20 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 33, 35, 46 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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