Irreparable Penile Mutilation · Impaled Divinity

78 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 54-56, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
IRREPARABLE PENILE MUTILATION · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-55.

PART A
PART C
PART H
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRAYCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Irreparable Penile Mutilation?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Irreparable Penile Mutilation hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Irreparable Penile Mutilation?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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