Cauterize · As I Lay Dying

102 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
CAUTERIZE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 17 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 18 sections: 54 keep time, 23 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNCJTA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cauterize?

115 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 Cauterize hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Cauterize?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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