The Sea Of Tragic Beasts · Fit For An Autopsy

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 10 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE SEA OF TRAGIC BEASTS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 22, 26, 36, 38, 42 and 18 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 24 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-146.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAPAVVF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sea Of Tragic Beasts?

135 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 Sea Of Tragic Beasts hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 25 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 Sea Of Tragic Beasts?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 22, 26, 36, 38, 42 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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