Symmetry · Dethklok

112 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 41-48 and 57-59, and 1 more place -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SYMMETRY · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 12 are fills and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-75.

PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS10HFQC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symmetry?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Symmetry hard to play on drums?

46 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Symmetry?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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