Incinerate · Sonic Youth

184 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5, 7-8 and 21-34, and 6 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
INCINERATE · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 12, 18, 43, 45, 47 and 28 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 12 sections: 129 keep time, 35 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-184.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART AD
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Incinerate?

150 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 Incinerate hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Incinerate?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 3, 12, 18, 43, 45, 47 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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