Through Struggle · Angona (As I Lay Dying Cover-Drop A)

172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 5 more places -- 14.6% 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
THROUGH STRUGGLE · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 63, 71 and 6 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 14 sections: 137 keep time, 12 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-59.

PART D
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART P
PART AD
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLPALDU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Through Struggle?

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 Through Struggle hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Through Struggle?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 63, 71 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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