Seraphim Part III · Robin Callaway

121 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-115 and 118 -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 193 BPM
SERAPHIM PART III · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 3 sections: 114 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-116.

PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesFBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seraphim Part III?

193 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 Seraphim Part III hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Seraphim Part III?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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