Thy Underling (AI) · Alluvial

155 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34-37 and 64, and 3 more places -- 12.3% 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
THY UNDERLING (AI) · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 56 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 13-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 21 sections: 60 keep time, 62 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-143.

CHORUS
PART W
PART W
PART AO
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesDWADAAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thy Underling (AI)?

160 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 Thy Underling (AI) hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Thy Underling (AI)?

27 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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