Schism (Acoustic) · TOOL

237 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 64 BPM, 11:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
11:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 34 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 40 are fills, 13 are stops and 75 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-37.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART S8
PART AL
11 groovesFS8ALMJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Schism (Acoustic)?

64 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Schism (Acoustic) 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 11:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Schism (Acoustic)?

10 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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