Diabolic Slumber · Whitechapel

178 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-72, 95-101 and 103-108 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DIABOLIC SLUMBER · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 14 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 20 sections: 78 keep time, 20 are fills, 37 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-101.

PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BB
PART S16
OUTRO 2
18 groovesANBMBBAS16+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diabolic Slumber?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Diabolic Slumber hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Diabolic Slumber?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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