grindcore album · fermented toilet decapitation

30 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
30
LENGTH
0:51
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3 and 7-9 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GRINDCORE ALBUM · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

30 bars across 5 sections: 11 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent.

CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
5 groovesAOS2S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is grindcore album?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is grindcore album 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 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

30 bars, about 0:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 grindcore album?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 30 BARS ANALYSED
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