Symptom of the Universe · Sepultura

187 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-18, 27-50 and 59-65, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 166 BPM
SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 19-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 54-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 8 sections: 137 keep time, 33 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-50.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBACURS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symptom of the Universe?

166 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 Symptom of the Universe hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Symptom of the Universe?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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