World Coming Down · Type O Negative

266 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 12:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
12:31
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 78-101 and 120-143, and 1 more place -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WORLD COMING DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 70, 71, 76, 106, 107 and 7 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 11 sections: 165 keep time, 13 are fills, 78 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-101.

PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFBGES9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is World Coming Down?

85 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 World Coming Down hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 12:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 World Coming Down?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 70, 71, 76, 106, 107 and 7 more.

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