Impaled Souls of the Dead · PuDGE

193 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 55, and 10 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
IMPALED SOULS OF THE DEAD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 11, 20, 106, 109, 159 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 159 · LANDS ON BAR 160

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 23 sections: 122 keep time, 10 are fills, 49 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-67.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART F
OUTRO
19 groovesCIFZAF+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Impaled Souls of the Dead?

130 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 Impaled Souls of the Dead hard to play on drums?

72 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?

193 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Impaled Souls of the Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 11, 20, 106, 109, 159 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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