The Sound Which Has No Name · Xanthochroid

382 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 6:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
382
LENGTH
6:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 93, 97 and 187, and 13 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
THE SOUND WHICH HAS NO NAME · BAR 298
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 17, 24, 32, 40, 47 and 10 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

382 bars across 30 sections: 152 keep time, 16 are fills, 88 are stops and 102 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 223-234.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART U
19 groovesS10UCGZ+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sound Which Has No Name?

220 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 Sound Which Has No Name hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

382 bars, about 6:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sound Which Has No Name?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 17, 24, 32, 40, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 382 BARS ANALYSED
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