Benedictine Convulsions · Cryptopsy

190 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 21 and 29, and 6 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 · 235 BPM
BENEDICTINE CONVULSIONS · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 18, 26 and 47 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 54 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-66.

PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART F
PART W
PART Q
PART AS
PART AW
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHFQWAS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Benedictine Convulsions?

235 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 Benedictine Convulsions hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 26 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 Benedictine Convulsions?

27 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 18, 26 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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