Criminally Insane · Slayer

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 38-45 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
CRIMINALLY INSANE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 17, 19, 37, 47 and 8 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-27.

PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIBGCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Criminally Insane?

107 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 Criminally Insane hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 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 Criminally Insane?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 17, 19, 37, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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