Bucket of Afterbirth · Digested Flesh

58 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9 and 19, and 7 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BUCKET OF AFTERBIRTH · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29 and 12 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 26 keep time, 18 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-37.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGACDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bucket of Afterbirth?

175 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 Bucket of Afterbirth hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 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 Bucket of Afterbirth?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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