Impotent God · Hypocrisy

113 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-11 and 13, and 14 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
IMPOTENT GOD · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 46, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 10 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-62.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHJS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Impotent God?

195 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 Impotent God hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Impotent God?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 46, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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