Chemically Altered · Municipal Waste

157 bars at 300 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
300 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-53, 63-69 and 71-77, and 2 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 300 BPM
CHEMICALLY ALTERED · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 41, 45 and 21 more.

LOOP · 300 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 300 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 300 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 300 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 27 are fills and 22 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

CHORUS
PART E
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBLEWT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemically Altered?

300 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chemically Altered hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 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 Chemically Altered?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 29, 41, 45 and 21 more.

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