Born a Swine · Macerate

160 bars at 305 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 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
305 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37-40 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 305 BPM
BORN A SWINE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 70 more.

LOOP · 305 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 305 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 305 BPM
BARS 11-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 305 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 19 sections: 53 keep time, 76 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-48.

PART S3
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART I
PART AO
PART AO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXIAOKAX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born a Swine?

305 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 Born a Swine hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 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 Born a Swine?

25 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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