Christbait Rising · Godflesh

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicMetalUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 33-48 and 81-96 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
CHRISTBAIT RISING · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 10 sections: 118 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-136.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Christbait Rising?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Christbait Rising hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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