Desperate Cry · Sepultura

279 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-49, 65-72 and 149-151, and 2 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DESPERATE CRY · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 34, 35, 36 and 49 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 34-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

279 bars across 28 sections: 178 keep time, 55 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 206-220.

PART T
PART N
PART AD
PART G
PART AN
OUTRO 2
16 groovesKNTEC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desperate Cry?

160 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 Desperate Cry hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

279 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 24 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 Desperate Cry?

21 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 21, 25, 29, 34, 35, 36 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED
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