Altar of Flesh · Ingested

118 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 73-83 and 107, and 2 more places -- 15.8% 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
ALTAR OF FLESH · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 15-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 14 sections: 55 keep time, 25 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

CHORUS
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
PART S12
OUTRO
8 groovesAPMS12J+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Altar of Flesh?

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 Altar of Flesh hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Altar of Flesh?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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