Hymn For The Wretched · The Black Dahlia Murder

152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 46-48, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
HYMN FOR THE WRETCHED · BAR 135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 13, 15, 16, 17, 29 and 17 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 20 sections: 102 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-148.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART W
PART Z
PART AF
PART AH
PART R
OUTRO 2
13 groovesORGAHI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hymn For The Wretched?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hymn For The Wretched hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 25 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 Hymn For The Wretched?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 13, 15, 16, 17, 29 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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