Immortal Rites · Morbid Angel

211 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62-64 and 66-68, and 6 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
IMMORTAL RITES · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 32, 40, 41 and 31 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 14 sections: 123 keep time, 37 are fills, 29 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART S
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART S
9 groovesHVSADE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Immortal Rites?

202 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 Immortal Rites hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Immortal Rites?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 32, 40, 41 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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