Turn Soonest To The Sea · Protest The Protagonist

250 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 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
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 12 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
TURN SOONEST TO THE SEA · BARS 183-184
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 54 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 17 sections: 134 keep time, 60 are fills, 16 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 203-216.

PART F
PART H
PART N
PART T
PART AB
PART AV
OUTRO
BREAK
16 groovesENHABT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Turn Soonest To The Sea?

210 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 Turn Soonest To The Sea hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Turn Soonest To The Sea?

30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 19 and 54 more.

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