Semblance Of Confusion · After Forever

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-77, 79-85 and 87-92, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SEMBLANCE OF CONFUSION · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 30, 34, 46, 86, 94 and 2 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 8 are fills, 13 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-85.

PART F
PART H
PART F
PART H
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
7 groovesPBHFC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Semblance Of Confusion?

95 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 Semblance Of Confusion hard to play on drums?

64 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 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 Semblance Of Confusion?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 30, 34, 46, 86, 94 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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