Seeds of Chaos · Cascading Misery

148 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-45 and 113-130 -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SEEDS OF CHAOS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 27, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 19 are fills, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-45.

PART A
PART C
PART F
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNFCXG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seeds of Chaos?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Seeds of Chaos hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Seeds of Chaos?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 26, 27, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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