Absolute Genocide · Thy Art Is Murder

146 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 6 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
ABSOLUTE GENOCIDE · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 13 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 17 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills, 10 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART Y
PART AB
PART AG
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
13 groovesIYS1ABAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Absolute Genocide?

136 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 Absolute Genocide hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 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 Absolute Genocide?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 30, 49, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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