Bone Marrow Incubatis · chopikk

227 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 18-19 and 32-34, and 9 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BONE MARROW INCUBATIS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 20, 35 and 52 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 24 sections: 116 keep time, 58 are fills, 24 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

PART J
PART Y
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART AW
PART AS
PART Y
OUTRO
12 groovesDGJYAS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bone Marrow Incubatis?

230 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 Bone Marrow Incubatis hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 Bone Marrow Incubatis?

19 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 20, 35 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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