The Great Reality · Persefone

266 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 6:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 75-81 and 83-85, and 3 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE GREAT REALITY · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 48 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 22 sections: 167 keep time, 54 are fills, 10 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-186.

PART E
PART O
PART A
CHORUS
PART AR
PART BB
PART BO
OUTRO
16 groovesAJAEOAR+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Reality?

175 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 Great Reality hard to play on drums?

84 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?

266 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 35 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Great Reality?

28 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 19 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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