Infestation · Harms Way

108 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
INFESTATION · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 33, 37, 47, 49, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 13 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-28.

PART B
PART F
PART I
PART L
PART F
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesSBFIL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Infestation?

135 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 Infestation hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Infestation?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 33, 37, 47, 49, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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