Sacrifice · Tesseract

195 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 127 BPM, 7:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SACRIFICE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 24, 25, 31, 32, 38 and 28 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART C
PART Q
PART F
PART AE
PART AQ
PART AZ
CHORUS
BREAK
10 groovesS12BHAQF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sacrifice?

127 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 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 Sacrifice?

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 24, 25, 31, 32, 38 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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