Desecration of a Lustful Illusion · Saidan

225 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-22, 24-30 and 32-38, and 4 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DESECRATION OF A LUSTFUL ILLUSION · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 23, 31, 39, 43, 45 and 51 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 20 sections: 132 keep time, 57 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART O
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART AL
12 groovesCGOYAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desecration of a Lustful Illusion?

175 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 Desecration of a Lustful Illusion hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Desecration of a Lustful Illusion?

27 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 7, 23, 31, 39, 43, 45 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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