Terrible Certainty · Kreator

157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 50-52, and 11 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TERRIBLE CERTAINTY · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 21 sections: 98 keep time, 26 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-76.

PART A
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART L
PART S17
PART F
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMLFAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Terrible Certainty?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Terrible Certainty hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Terrible Certainty?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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