Sp Lit · Chimaira

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45-51 and 67-73 -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
SP LIT · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 14, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 7 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 10 sections: 47 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-52.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART L
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLFAS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sp Lit?

93 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 Sp Lit hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sp Lit?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 14, 17, 18, 19, 28 and 7 more.

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