I Rape Myself · Caliban

72 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 176 BPM, 3:15 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7 and 9-11 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
I RAPE MYSELF · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 33.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 22 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 36 are silent.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS6DGMK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Rape Myself?

176 BPM, in 8/4, 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 I Rape Myself hard to play on drums?

45 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Rape Myself?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 33.

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