Hereditary Taint · Arghoslent

191 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-32, 43-56 and 99-108 -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
HEREDITARY TAINT · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 15, 16, 41, 42, 64 and 28 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 18 sections: 138 keep time and 34 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-56.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART D
PART Z
12 groovesFZJAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hereditary Taint?

175 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 Hereditary Taint hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hereditary Taint?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 15, 16, 41, 42, 64 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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