Back To The Worms · Cryptopsy

134 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-72 and 74-76, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BACK TO THE WORMS · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 41 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 61 keep time, 47 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent.

PART B
PART F
PART L
PART S
PART B
PART AB
CHORUS
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAGBAPABL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To The Worms?

153 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 Back To The Worms hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Back To The Worms?

28 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 41 more.

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