Distorted Thought Of Addiction · Suicide Silence

132 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 34, and 3 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DISTORTED THOUGHT OF ADDICTION · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 14, 25, 37 and 14 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 20 sections: 63 keep time, 20 are fills, 31 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-92.

PART F
CHORUS 4
PART S
CHORUS 5
PART X
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesLXAHSAE+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Distorted Thought Of Addiction?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Distorted Thought Of Addiction hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 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 Distorted Thought Of Addiction?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 14, 25, 37 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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