Homicidal Tendencies · Lifelover

54 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 1:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9 and 21-24 -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HOMICIDAL TENDENCIES · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 14 and 20.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 7 sections: 24 keep time, 6 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-9.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCLHDO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Homicidal Tendencies?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Homicidal Tendencies hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Homicidal Tendencies?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 14 and 20.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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