The Message [Tablet I] · Blood Incantation

246 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
246
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23 and 34, and 10 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
THE MESSAGE [TABLET I] · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 28 sections: 138 keep time, 60 are fills, 16 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-96.

PART A
PART J
PART BO
17 groovesGJAQABO+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Message [Tablet I]?

176 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 Message [Tablet I] hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

246 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 99 exercises over 33 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 Message [Tablet I]?

32 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 246 BARS ANALYSED
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