Snake of Eden · Antimortal

229 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-68 and 70-72, and 15 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SNAKE OF EDEN · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 24 sections: 147 keep time, 32 are fills, 6 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-212.

PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BF
20 groovesAAVBFKE+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Snake of Eden?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Snake of Eden hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 29 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 Snake of Eden?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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