The Stains Of Time · Jamie Christopherson

102 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 10 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE STAINS OF TIME · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART M
PART O
8 groovesDJMOV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Stains Of Time?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Stains Of Time hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Stains Of Time?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 13, 35 and 13 more.

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