Submerged in Grief · Paranoid Schizophrenia

266 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 93 BPM, 9:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-72, 74-76 and 78-80, and 9 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 93 BPM
SUBMERGED IN GRIEF · BAR 70
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 178, 186 and 234.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 178 · LANDS ON BAR 179 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

271 bars across 21 sections: 174 keep time, 3 are fills, 25 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-67.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART W
PART X
PART Z
BREAK 5
16 groovesMS10JAW+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Submerged in Grief?

93 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Submerged in Grief hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Submerged in Grief?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 178, 186 and 234.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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