Reflection · As I Lay Dying

148 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-40 and 73-88 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
REFLECTION · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 8 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 115 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-40.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART R
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIMAJQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reflection?

188 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 Reflection hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Reflection?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 23, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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