EXCOMULGADO · INFERATOR

155 bars, 8:42, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 5 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
EXCOMULGADO · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 35, 36 and 15 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 40-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AE
PART AG
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesSAGVAEL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is EXCOMULGADO?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is EXCOMULGADO hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 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 EXCOMULGADO?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 35, 36 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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