Chronic Slaughter · Slaughter To Prevail

133 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-54, 59 and 61-66, and 2 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CHRONIC SLAUGHTER · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 31 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 37 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-125.

PART I
PART Q
PART T
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABIYBGT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chronic Slaughter?

135 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 Chronic Slaughter hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Chronic Slaughter?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 13 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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