The Axiom of Existence · Entropic

64 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 14-15, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE AXIOM OF EXISTENCE · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 20 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 5 sections: 33 keep time, 26 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

CHORUS
PART K
PART T
OUTRO
5 groovesBKTZS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Axiom of Existence?

130 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 The Axiom of Existence hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Axiom of Existence?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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