Sacred Generation · Amalgamation

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 33-47 and 73-87 -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SACRED GENERATION · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 88 and 120.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-47.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDS10HAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacred Generation?

130 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 Sacred Generation hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 Sacred Generation?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 88 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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