Filthgrinder · Satyricon

281 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 5:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 174-180, 182-185 and 187-188, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
FILTHGRINDER · BAR 174
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 27, 29, 31 and 11 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 27 sections: 220 keep time, 18 are fills, 13 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-77.

PART B
PART W
CHORUS
PART AZ
OUTRO
17 groovesATYBWAZ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Filthgrinder?

195 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 Filthgrinder hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 35 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 Filthgrinder?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 27, 29, 31 and 11 more.

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