country of corpses · j

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46 and 73-88 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
COUNTRY OF CORPSES · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 31 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 22-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 37 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

PART A
PART H
PART R
CHORUS
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesSRHAAAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is country of corpses?

102 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 country of corpses hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 country of corpses?

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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