Fixated On Devastation · Dying Fetus

200 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 27, and 15 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
FIXATED ON DEVASTATION · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 16 sections: 111 keep time, 67 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-98.

PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AO
PART AW
PART BE
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEAZQAO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fixated On Devastation?

230 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 Fixated On Devastation hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 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 Fixated On Devastation?

29 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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