Held Captive for Torture · Putrid Pile

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-92 and 97-120 -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HELD CAPTIVE FOR TORTURE · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-120.

PART A
PART C
PART A
PART C
PART A
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMCAGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Held Captive for Torture?

180 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 Held Captive for Torture hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Held Captive for Torture?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 44 and 6 more.

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