Diminished to B · Necrophagist

163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 132, 134 and 136, and 13 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
DIMINISHED TO B · BAR 132
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 67 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time and 73 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-163.

PART E
PART X
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART AZ
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAEBVAOAZE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Diminished to B?

112 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Diminished to B hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 24 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 Diminished to B?

25 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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