Pulse · Erra

195 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 25 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
PULSE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 69 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 75 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART AR
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCHARBQB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pulse?

195 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 Pulse hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Pulse?

31 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 12, 13, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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