Biblical Violence · Hella

111 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-17 and 32-33 -- 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 · 144 BPM
BIBLICAL VIOLENCE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 32, 33 and 5 more.

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-100.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AF
PART AL
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesMAXEAAS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Biblical Violence?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Biblical Violence hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Biblical Violence?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 32, 33 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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