Fermented Offal Discharge · Necrophagist

229 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
224 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-7, 13-15 and 17, and 15 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 224 BPM
FERMENTED OFFAL DISCHARGE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 55 more.

LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 224 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 25 sections: 133 keep time, 62 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-211.

CHORUS
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 4
PART BD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesCBQADBDV+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fermented Offal Discharge?

224 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 Fermented Offal Discharge hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 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 Fermented Offal Discharge?

24 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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