Exist To Suffer · 4 crackheads

83 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60-66 and 68-74 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
EXIST TO SUFFER · BARS 60-61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 59, 67 and 75.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 64 keep time, 4 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
PART C
PART F
PART H
PART M
OUTRO
7 groovesOHACF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exist To Suffer?

180 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 Exist To Suffer hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Exist To Suffer?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 51, 59, 67 and 75.

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