A Vulgar Picture · The Black Dahlia Murder

173 bars at 228 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
228 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 58-61 and 66-68, and 2 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 228 BPM
A VULGAR PICTURE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 53 more.

LOOP · 228 BPM
BARS 6-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 228 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 15 sections: 92 keep time, 59 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-96.

CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART U
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBNUQBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Vulgar Picture?

228 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Vulgar Picture hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 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 A Vulgar Picture?

20 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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