Defenestration · Cryptopsy

205 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92 and 94, and 10 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DEFENESTRATION · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 45 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

205 bars across 20 sections: 108 keep time, 52 are fills, 15 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-150.

PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART B
PART Z
BREAK
11 groovesAEBZKY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Defenestration?

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

Is Defenestration hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Defenestration?

28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED
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