Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) · Coheed And Cambria

149 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 34-35, and 9 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TEN SPEED (OF GOD'S BLOOD & BURIAL) · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 43 and 13 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 8 sections: 113 keep time, 20 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART F
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHJFEW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial)?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 43 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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