Puppets (The First Snow) · Motionless In White

198 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-66 and 124-139 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PUPPETS (THE FIRST SNOW) · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 25 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 18 sections: 153 keep time, 20 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-84.

PART C
PART E
PART E
PART O
CHORUS
PART Z
PART O
CHORUS 2
12 groovesPEOCAK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Puppets (The First Snow)?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Puppets (The First Snow) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Puppets (The First Snow)?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 25 and 13 more.

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