Advanced Stage Decomposition · Devourment

155 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 13-14, and 8 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ADVANCED STAGE DECOMPOSITION · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 24 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

CHORUS
PART N
PART T
PART Y
PART T
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AS
PART AY
12 groovesATYASN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Advanced Stage Decomposition?

130 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 Advanced Stage Decomposition hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 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 Advanced Stage Decomposition?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 16, 22 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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