Replica · Sonata Arctica

144 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 23, and 19 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
REPLICA · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 76, 112, 120, 128, 136 and 1 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 9 sections: 90 keep time, 7 are fills, 26 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-98.

PART B
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBKFS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Replica?

154 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 Replica hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Replica?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 56, 76, 112, 120, 128, 136 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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