ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Engulfed In Excruciation on drums

129 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 129
LENGTH: 2:59
DIFFICULTY: 89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-45, toms through bars 46-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8 and 87-94 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                2
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------x-----x-----------|
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----------------------------|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----f-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----------x-----x-----------|

Engulfed In Excruciation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 14, 17, 19, 23, 29, 33 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AH, AF -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part C and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part I and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Engulfed In Excruciation?

180 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 Engulfed In Excruciation hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 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 Engulfed In Excruciation?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 14, 17, 19, 23, 29, 33 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED