Depress · Eyehategod

127 bars, 7:43, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-102, 105-119 and 121-123, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 64 BPM
DEPRESS · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 21, 29, 37 and 6 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 14 are fills, 38 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-72.

PART E
PART L
PART Q
PART S
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAFAAQLE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Depress?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Depress hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Depress?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 21, 29, 37 and 6 more.

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