...the VII Mythos · Decaying Skies

173 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 2 more places -- 20% 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 VII MYTHOS · BAR 47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 33, 49, 53 and 5 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 11 are fills, 26 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-113.

BREAK
PART F
PART H
BREAK 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS10S7HFP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ...the VII Mythos?

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 VII Mythos hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 VII Mythos?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 33, 49, 53 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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