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Intramuscular Putrefaction · Cystotomy

EXERCISE 35 OF 36
Join Part H to Outro (bars 94-96)
103 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART H
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHBNS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Intramuscular Putrefaction on drums

111 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, ride through bars 24-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-43, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 68-70, and 6 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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CC |x---------------x---------------|
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Intramuscular Putrefaction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 43, 51, 67 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-89 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Intramuscular Putrefaction?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Intramuscular Putrefaction hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Intramuscular Putrefaction?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 43, 51, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED