Infected · Obituary

208 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-39, 41-52 and 54-58, and 1 more place -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
INFECTED · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 60, 76, 100, 155, 174 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 174 · LANDS ON BAR 175 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 15 sections: 144 keep time, 16 are fills, 22 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART S
BREAK
11 groovesCKAMI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Infected?

160 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 Infected hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Infected?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 60, 76, 100, 155, 174 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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