Castration Rite · Discordance Axis

27 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 0:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
27
LENGTH
0:56
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 9, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
CASTRATION RITE · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 6 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

27 bars across 3 sections: 10 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDKNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Castration Rite?

112 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 Castration Rite 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 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

27 bars, about 0:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Castration Rite?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 27 BARS ANALYSED
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