The Art of Sombre Ecstacy · Gorguts

199 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33, 37-38 and 41-42, and 9 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
THE ART OF SOMBRE ECSTACY · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 46 and 29 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 16 sections: 123 keep time, 35 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-124.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AF
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKDAFABF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Art of Sombre Ecstacy?

225 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 The Art of Sombre Ecstacy 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 20 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 The Art of Sombre Ecstacy?

8 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 46 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED
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