Civilized Worm · Melvins

140 bars, 8:51, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 20, and 7 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
CIVILIZED WORM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 11, 15, 19 and 36 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-135.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AN
PART AM
PART AG
OUTRO
8 groovesCAGEBAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Civilized Worm?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Civilized Worm hard to play on drums?

46 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 8:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Civilized Worm?

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 11, 15, 19 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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