Brutal Decay · Chronosphere

202 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 57-64 and 98-104, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BRUTAL DECAY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 23 sections: 140 keep time, 34 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-162.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS 5
12 groovesLDSNO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brutal Decay?

210 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 Brutal Decay hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Brutal Decay?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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