Horrendous Festering Transmutations · Epicardiectomy

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-17 and 36-43, and 5 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HORRENDOUS FESTERING TRANSMUTATIONS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 13, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time, 25 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-68.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART V
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesENTVH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Horrendous Festering Transmutations?

140 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 Horrendous Festering Transmutations hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Horrendous Festering Transmutations?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 13, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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