Terminal Existance · Vile

189 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 15-18, and 8 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
TERMINAL EXISTANCE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 14, 36, 37, 38, 46 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 21 sections: 127 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-142.

PART H
PART G
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCEMGAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terminal Existance?

200 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 Terminal Existance hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Terminal Existance?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 14, 36, 37, 38, 46 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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