Servant Of This Sentience · Rings Of Saturn

103 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 24.2% 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
SERVANT OF THIS SENTIENCE · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 32 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-18.

PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBXRY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Servant Of This Sentience?

130 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 Servant Of This Sentience hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Servant Of This Sentience?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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