Engineered Atrophy · Contaminant

122 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22-26 and 96-110 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
ENGINEERED ATROPHY · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 27.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 2 are fills, 18 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-110.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART K
PART Q
PART S10
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEHS10QB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Engineered Atrophy?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Engineered Atrophy hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Engineered Atrophy?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 27.

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