Bludgeoned Into Submission · Gormented Sacrifice

37 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
37
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BLUDGEONED INTO SUBMISSION · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 7 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

37 bars across 3 sections: 20 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesHBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bludgeoned Into Submission?

195 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 Bludgeoned Into Submission hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

37 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Bludgeoned Into Submission?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 19, 21 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 37 BARS ANALYSED
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