The Egocentric Predicament · Vechnoe

143 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 120-122, 124-125 and 128-130, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE EGOCENTRIC PREDICAMENT · BARS 120-121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 30, 71, 79, 87 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 106 keep time, 8 are fills, 10 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-142.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
OUTRO
10 groovesBAAPKS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Egocentric Predicament?

160 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 Egocentric Predicament hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 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 Egocentric Predicament?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 30, 71, 79, 87 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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