Does This Look Infected · Sum 41

1139 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 26:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
1139
LENGTH
26:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-131, 143-145 and 147-153, and 27 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 174 BPM
DOES THIS LOOK INFECTED · BAR 147
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

79 fills to learn, played 212 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 206 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

75 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

1141 bars across 112 sections: 680 keep time, 212 are fills, 93 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 707-737.

60 groovesAOEDEUBZAJ+55Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Does This Look Infected?

174 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 Does This Look Infected hard to play on drums?

71 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?

1139 bars, about 26:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 331 exercises over 89 sittings, about 27 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 Does This Look Infected?

79 fills to learn, played 212 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 206 more.

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