Drill the Skull · Necrot

237 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 26-28 and 30-32, and 15 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 157 BPM
DRILL THE SKULL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 33, 50 and 38 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 16 sections: 133 keep time, 44 are fills, 49 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 191-201.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART C
PART C
PART AG
OUTRO
8 groovesACAGOS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drill the Skull?

157 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 Drill the Skull hard to play on drums?

58 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drill the Skull?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 33, 50 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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