Cutting The Flesh · Necrosceral

185 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-111, 131-132 and 147 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
CUTTING THE FLESH · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 34, 36, 52 and 18 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 21 sections: 127 keep time, 24 are fills, 63 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-111.

CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART S
PART U
CHORUS 2
17 groovesESIOJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cutting The Flesh?

110 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 Cutting The Flesh hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 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 Cutting The Flesh?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 34, 36, 52 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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