Immaculate Deception · Arclite

90 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
IMMACULATE DECEPTION · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 28 and 10 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 14 sections: 54 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
9 groovesHCJNK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Immaculate Deception?

125 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 Immaculate Deception hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Immaculate Deception?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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