Belly of the Beast · Combust

146 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-40 and 43-44, and 15 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BELLY OF THE BEAST · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 15 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 21 are fills, 30 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

PART D
PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKGDEAA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Belly of the Beast?

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

Is Belly of the Beast hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Belly of the Beast?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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