The Architect · Haken

375 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 21:40 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
375
LENGTH
21:40
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 78-83, 86-90 and 111-115, and 1 more place -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
THE ARCHITECT · BARS 78-79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 86 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 11-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

375 bars across 22 sections: 89 keep time, 92 are fills, 11 are stops and 163 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 231-241.

PART S2
PART T
PART S15
OUTRO 2
19 groovesS22S15AVTS2+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Architect?

97 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Architect hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

375 bars, about 21:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 The Architect?

22 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 86 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 375 BARS ANALYSED
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