Proxy · Tesseract

133 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-32, 34-40 and 42-48, and 2 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PROXY · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 24 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART W
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGAFABWM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Proxy?

118 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 Proxy hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Proxy?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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