Horror and Torture · Torture Squad

271 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-64, 67-73 and 75-82, and 9 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 212 BPM
HORROR AND TORTURE · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 56 more.

LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 212 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

271 bars across 29 sections: 161 keep time, 63 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-64.

PART J
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
15 groovesAAHJCG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Horror and Torture?

212 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 Horror and Torture hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Horror and Torture?

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED
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