Cerebral Cereal · Pyaemia

102 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 38-40, and 4 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
CEREBRAL CEREAL · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 33 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 52 keep time, 39 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-60.

CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART K
PART U
PART W
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFKOUWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cerebral Cereal?

127 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 Cerebral Cereal hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Cerebral Cereal?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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