Decapitation Fornication · Infant Annihilator

129 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-54, 58 and 60, and 1 more place -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DECAPITATION FORNICATION · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 25 and 9 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 56 keep time, 15 are fills, 43 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-60.

PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesVLAFHE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decapitation Fornication?

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

Is Decapitation Fornication hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

129 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 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 Decapitation Fornication?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 20, 21, 25 and 9 more.

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