Death Atlas · Cattle Decapitation

271 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 9:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
9:03
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 111 and 144-157, and 51 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEATH ATLAS · BAR 161
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 58 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

271 bars across 18 sections: 66 keep time, 64 are fills, 111 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-125.

PART A
PART K
PART A
PART I
PART A
PART S15
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAJAS15AKI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Atlas?

120 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 Death Atlas hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 9:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Death Atlas?

27 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED
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