Tormented Consciousness · Rings Of Saturn

302 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 41 and 43-45, and 16 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 260 BPM
TORMENTED CONSCIOUSNESS · BAR 29
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 46 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

302 bars across 26 sections: 155 keep time, 52 are fills, 52 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 270-284.

PART A
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART AV
14 groovesLAJNAV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tormented Consciousness?

260 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 Tormented Consciousness hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Tormented Consciousness?

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 26, 30, 31, 32, 40 and 46 more.

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