The Insurrectionists · Auriferous Flame

538 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 21:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
538
LENGTH
21:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-31, 34-36 and 39-43, and 24 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE INSURRECTIONISTS · BAR 253
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

40 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 14-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

36 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

538 bars across 49 sections: 223 keep time, 73 are fills, 152 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-143.

PART AQ
PART S15
CHORUS
39 groovesBFAQS15ACAX+34Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Insurrectionists?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Insurrectionists hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

538 bars, about 21:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 163 exercises over 48 sittings, about 27 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 Insurrectionists?

40 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 67 more.

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