Carriers Of The Plague · Psycroptic

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 145-151, 153-155 and 157-159 -- 7.4% 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
CARRIERS OF THE PLAGUE · BAR 145
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 18 and 60 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 23 sections: 79 keep time, 66 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-87.

PART T
PART AL
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART BF
PART BW
18 groovesASDBWBFT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Carriers Of The Plague?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Carriers Of The Plague hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 34 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 Carriers Of The Plague?

31 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 17, 18 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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