The Chosen Pessimist · In Flames

198 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 110-112, 114-118 and 120-121, and 10 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE CHOSEN PESSIMIST · BAR 110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 12 sections: 132 keep time, 1 is a fill and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 147-198.

PART B
BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBS5S3S10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Chosen Pessimist?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Chosen Pessimist hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Chosen Pessimist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

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