Wait For A Vile · Artemesia

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 12 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
WAIT FOR A VILE · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 30 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 42-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 36 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-77.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AD
PART A
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMADBOA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wait For A Vile?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Wait For A Vile hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Wait For A Vile?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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