Where The Enemy Sleeps · Kataklysm

189 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31 and 167-180 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHERE THE ENEMY SLEEPS · BAR 167
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 32, 35, 37, 65, 69 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 21 sections: 138 keep time, 20 are fills, 12 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
16 groovesKDIQX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The Enemy Sleeps?

140 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 Where The Enemy Sleeps hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Where The Enemy Sleeps?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 32, 35, 37, 65, 69 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Kataklysm drum parts

EVERY KATAKLYSM CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →