Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) · Foreground Eclipse

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-81, 88 and 99-104, and 2 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WANDERING, NEVER WONDERING (THERE EXISTS A SHADE) · BAR 77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 72 and 24 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 20 sections: 85 keep time, 30 are fills, 13 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-60.

PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AK
BREAK
16 groovesUS20ODAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade)?

180 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 Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade) 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 19 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 Wandering, Never Wondering (There Exists A Shade)?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 22, 24, 72 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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