Ithyphallic · Nile

149 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 45-51 and 53-59 -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ITHYPHALLIC · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 38 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 16-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 44 are fills, 2 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

CHORUS
PART O
PART O
PART S
PART AC
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS10BOALS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ithyphallic?

155 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 Ithyphallic hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Ithyphallic?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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