Terminal Spirit Disease · At The Gates

305 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 250 BPM, 3:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 46-51 and 82-88, and 5 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
TERMINAL SPIRIT DISEASE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 18 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 38-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 241 · LANDS ON BAR 242

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 25 sections: 189 keep time, 24 are fills and 63 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART A
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDAFM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terminal Spirit Disease?

250 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Terminal Spirit Disease hard to play on drums?

55 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Terminal Spirit Disease?

5 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED
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