Undertow · As I Lay Dying

214 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33 and 35, and 22 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
UNDERTOW · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 29 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 19 sections: 135 keep time, 35 are fills, 19 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-83.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 5
11 groovesGZDPB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Undertow?

220 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 Undertow hard to play on drums?

47 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 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 Undertow?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 32 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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