The Genuine Pulse · Borknagar

160 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 4:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 12 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 173 BPM
THE GENUINE PULSE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 7 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-92.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK 2
9 groovesDS14KPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Genuine Pulse?

173 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 Genuine Pulse hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Genuine Pulse?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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