Spirits Away · Erra

145 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SPIRITS AWAY · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 47, 60, 61, 65, 84 and 12 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 98 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
PART AC
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDLACAJAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spirits Away?

180 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 Spirits Away hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spirits Away?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 47, 60, 61, 65, 84 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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