Cultist Base · Mick Gordon

235 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 39 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 167 BPM
CULTIST BASE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 15 sections: 112 keep time, 22 are stops and 96 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 176-199.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART B
BREAK
PART E
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCS8EBS15+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cultist Base?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cultist Base hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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