Cancer Culture · Decapitated

157 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 50-56, and 3 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
CANCER CULTURE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 17, 25 and 13 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-124.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART B
PART P
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBKQT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cancer Culture?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cancer Culture hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Cancer Culture?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 17, 25 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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