Abhorrent Greed · Contaminant

142 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 111-113 and 115-116, and 6 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ABHORRENT GREED · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 8 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 16 sections: 95 keep time, 14 are fills, 12 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-137.

PART A
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
10 groovesQKRS16A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Abhorrent Greed?

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 Abhorrent Greed hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 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 Abhorrent Greed?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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