Cancer Of The Soul · Bloodbath

180 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14-16 and 18-19, and 13 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CANCER OF THE SOUL · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 35, 43 and 18 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 18 sections: 122 keep time, 24 are fills, 5 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-131.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART M
OUTRO
12 groovesFMBYI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cancer Of The Soul?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Cancer Of The Soul hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Of The Soul?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 35, 43 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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