Sempiternal Beings V2 · Haken

281 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
8:21
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SEMPITERNAL BEINGS V2 · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 33, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 51 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 26 sections: 158 keep time, 57 are fills, 3 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART W
PART AE
PART AG
PART S18
PART BJ
BREAK 6
PART BW
OUTRO
23 groovesBAGBJIAE+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sempiternal Beings V2?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sempiternal Beings V2 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 8:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Sempiternal Beings V2?

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 1, 33, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 281 BARS ANALYSED
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