Semper Idem · Luminesce

213 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-90, 100-106 and 108-114, and 5 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SEMPER IDEM · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 81 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 8-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 16 sections: 99 keep time, 87 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-70.

PART F
PART F
PART Z
PART AH
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
PART AX
OUTRO
9 groovesANFJTAH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Semper Idem?

200 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 Semper Idem hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 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 Semper Idem?

22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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