Hidden in Atrophy · vlqg

60 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 1:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 25-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 215 BPM
HIDDEN IN ATROPHY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 17 and 15 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 17-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 29 keep time, 21 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-56.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
4 groovesGBS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hidden in Atrophy?

215 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 Hidden in Atrophy hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 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 Hidden in Atrophy?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 17 and 15 more.

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