Decomposed · Diavolo

128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DECOMPOSED · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 54, 60 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 74 keep time, 16 are fills, 14 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-111.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
PART O
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBUOGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decomposed?

160 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 Decomposed hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 Decomposed?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 48, 54, 60 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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