The Upheaval · Orbit Culture

180 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43, 47 and 49-51, and 6 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE UPHEAVAL · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 41, 42 and 19 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 25 are fills, 25 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-119.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLTAKHA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Upheaval?

160 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 Upheaval hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Upheaval?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 40, 41, 42 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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