Bring Back the Plague · Cattle Decapitation

230 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 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
230
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-79, 81-83 and 87-89, and 5 more places -- 10.5% 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
BRING BACK THE PLAGUE · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 41 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 12 sections: 144 keep time, 47 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 157-167.

PART B
PART H
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART K
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesASWBKAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bring Back the Plague?

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 Bring Back the Plague hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 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 Bring Back the Plague?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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