Symbol Of Eternity · Diablo

97 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SYMBOL OF ETERNITY · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 17, 18, 19, 31, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 70 keep time and 19 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEYAFBQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symbol Of Eternity?

116 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Symbol Of Eternity hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Symbol Of Eternity?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 17, 18, 19, 31, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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