Gravaged (A Cryptopsy) · Cryptopsy

142 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-84, 86-89 and 91, and 14 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 260 BPM
GRAVAGED (A CRYPTOPSY) · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 16 sections: 118 keep time, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-95.

PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
11 groovesZEFCP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gravaged (A Cryptopsy)?

260 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 Gravaged (A Cryptopsy) hard to play on drums?

59 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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