Chemically Castrated · Broken Hope

99 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-11 and 18-20, and 4 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
CHEMICALLY CASTRATED · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 13, 17, 21 and 29 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 16 sections: 50 keep time, 35 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-67.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
PART AA
PART AE
PART AG
PART AK
PART A
CHORUS 3
12 groovesDAKAAGH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemically Castrated?

123 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 Chemically Castrated hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Chemically Castrated?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 9, 12, 13, 17, 21 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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