Ball-Gagged and Gutted · Visceral Disgorge

183 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18 and 22-26, and 8 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BALL-GAGGED AND GUTTED · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 27, 47, 48, 49, 54 and 18 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 20 sections: 127 keep time, 24 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-26.

CHORUS
PART B
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AO
CHORUS 5
12 groovesDBXAMAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ball-Gagged and Gutted?

192 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 Ball-Gagged and Gutted hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 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 Ball-Gagged and Gutted?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 27, 47, 48, 49, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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