Pyrrhic · Ne Obliviscaris

178 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 5:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 78-85 and 151-156 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
PYRRHIC · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 25 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 18 sections: 110 keep time, 31 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-34.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART W
PART L
PART AF
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
11 groovesDLQWN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pyrrhic?

112 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pyrrhic hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 Pyrrhic?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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