Selkies: The Endless Obsession · Between The Buried And Me

258 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 35 and 43-45, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SELKIES: THE ENDLESS OBSESSION · BARS 43-44
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 56 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 28 sections: 138 keep time, 62 are fills, 18 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

PART F
CHORUS
PART AS
PART BO
26 groovesQBOFASAE+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Selkies: The Endless Obsession?

170 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 Selkies: The Endless Obsession hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 118 exercises over 35 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 Selkies: The Endless Obsession?

31 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 11, 12, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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