Breeding The Spawn · Suffocation

225 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 7:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-40 and 50-64, and 2 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BREEDING THE SPAWN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 23, 65, 66 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 25 sections: 150 keep time, 26 are fills, 17 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 209-225.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AM
PART AN
PART AX
OUTRO 2
16 groovesPAMAXAEX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Breeding The Spawn?

124 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 Breeding The Spawn hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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 Breeding The Spawn?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 23, 65, 66 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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