The Prelude to Bereavement · Shadow Of Intent

303 bars at 219 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
219 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
303
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 123, 125 and 127, and 9 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 219 BPM
THE PRELUDE TO BEREAVEMENT · BAR 123
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 44, 56, 84 and 42 more.

LOOP · 219 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 219 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

303 bars across 37 sections: 149 keep time, 48 are fills, 20 are stops and 61 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-79.

COUNT-IN
PART M
CHORUS
PART AL
PART AV
PART S28
PART BE
32 groovesAEAVS1MBE+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Prelude to Bereavement?

219 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 Prelude to Bereavement hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

303 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 34 sittings, about 25 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 Prelude to Bereavement?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 31, 32, 36, 44, 56, 84 and 42 more.

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