"Ten Sepiroth" · obscura

241 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 43-44 and 60, and 9 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
"TEN SEPIROTH" · BAR 36
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 68 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 19-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 37-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 20 sections: 97 keep time, 74 are fills, 16 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-172.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BF
CHORUS 4
PART CH
PART S18
14 groovesNBFS18S1Y+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Ten Sepiroth"?

185 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 "Ten Sepiroth" hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 32 sittings, about 24 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 "Ten Sepiroth"?

29 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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