Wreckage To Come · Vantablack

67 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 13-15 and 17-20, and 2 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
WRECKAGE TO COME · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 57, 62, 63 and 4 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 62-67 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 6 sections: 48 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-56.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCMAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wreckage To Come?

150 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 Wreckage To Come hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wreckage To Come?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 57, 62, 63 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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