Benchpressing Dead Midgets · Heretical Mutation

106 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 75 and 87-89, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BENCHPRESSING DEAD MIDGETS · BAR 94
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 27, 28, 32 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 22 sections: 58 keep time, 12 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
PART W
PART AB
PART Q
PART AK
PART D
OUTRO
19 groovesGQABMW+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Benchpressing Dead Midgets?

170 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 Benchpressing Dead Midgets hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Benchpressing Dead Midgets?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 27, 28, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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