Dead And Bloated · Stone Temple Pilots

80 bars, 5:07, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-50, 59-63 and 65-66, and 1 more place -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 62 BPM
DEAD AND BLOATED · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 22, 26, 29, 40, 44 and 8 more.

LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 62 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDNHKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead And Bloated?

62 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 Dead And Bloated hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dead And Bloated?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 22, 26, 29, 40, 44 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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