Brutal Plague · Violent Butchery

152 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 15-16 and 39-42, and 7 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BRUTAL PLAGUE · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 6, 11, 14, 38, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 103 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-27.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART E
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesFEHCS12+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brutal Plague?

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 Plague hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Plague?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 6, 11, 14, 38, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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