As I Slither · Kataklysm

107 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 66-73 and 91-106 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 147 BPM
AS I SLITHER · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 65.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 86 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-106.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGIOFH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As I Slither?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 As I Slither hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in As I Slither?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 16 and 65.

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