Undefined · As I Lay Dying

98 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 and 75-90 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
UNDEFINED · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 73 and 74.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
7 groovesCDFJK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Undefined?

175 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 Undefined hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Undefined?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 73 and 74.

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