The Fool · Fleshgod Apocalypse

221 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 56, and 14 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
THE FOOL · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 50 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 21 sections: 121 keep time, 56 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-125.

CHORUS
PART U
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART U
12 groovesCUAKAAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fool?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Fool 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 Fool?

26 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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