Infecting The Crypts · Suffocation

181 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37, and 6 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
INFECTING THE CRYPTS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 35 and 38 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

PART C
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART AO
OUTRO
BREAK 4
14 groovesIS17KTAO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Infecting The Crypts?

230 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 Infecting The Crypts hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 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 Infecting The Crypts?

15 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 24, 35 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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