Veil of Illumination (Full Band) · Andromeda

478 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 15:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
478
LENGTH
15:11
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 115-117, and 7 more places -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
VEIL OF ILLUMINATION (FULL BAND) · BARS 50-51
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

49 fills to learn, played 163 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 157 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 7-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

45 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

478 bars across 38 sections: 217 keep time, 163 are fills, 43 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 448-460.

PART G
PART AZ
PART S20
PART S26
23 groovesACGS26AZV+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veil of Illumination (Full Band)?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Veil of Illumination (Full Band) hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

478 bars, about 15:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 153 exercises over 53 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 Veil of Illumination (Full Band)?

49 fills to learn, played 163 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 157 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 478 BARS ANALYSED
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