Feasting On The Blood Of The Insane · Six Feet Under

111 bars, 6:12, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-56 and 83-101 -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
FEASTING ON THE BLOOD OF THE INSANE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 61 and 106.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 4 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-56.

PART A
PART C
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesKFCAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feasting On The Blood Of The Insane?

72 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 Feasting On The Blood Of The Insane hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Feasting On The Blood Of The Insane?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 12, 61 and 106.

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