Dehydrated · Pestilence

148 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 34-40 and 50-57, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 207 BPM
DEHYDRATED · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 13 sections: 104 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-91.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFASGS13+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dehydrated?

207 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 Dehydrated hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 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 Dehydrated?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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