Dead And Dripping · Cryptopsy

125 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
DEAD AND DRIPPING · BAR 107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 32 and 30 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 36-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 36 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-117.

CHORUS
PART O
PART AD
PART AI
PART AP
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDAIGOAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead And Dripping?

122 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 Dead And Dripping hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Dripping?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 32 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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