Sanctum of the Psychopomp · Antimortal

155 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 37 and 39, and 5 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
SANCTUM OF THE PSYCHOPOMP · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 97 keep time, 32 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-145.

PART B
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART AB
PART G
PART I
PART AH
PART AQ
12 groovesOIAHGB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sanctum of the Psychopomp?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sanctum of the Psychopomp hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Sanctum of the Psychopomp?

19 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 13, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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