ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autopsy on drums

124 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 220 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 124
LENGTH: 2:08
DIFFICULTY: 99/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-37, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 18-21 and 34-37, and 3 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                                3
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------|

Autopsy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 28, 41, 45, 49, 59 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
Bars 4-38 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 40-46 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Autopsy?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Autopsy hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 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 Autopsy?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 28, 41, 45, 49, 59 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED