Living Monstrosity · Death

216 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 5:25 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-40, and 6 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 166 BPM
LIVING MONSTROSITY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 44, 55, 56 and 43 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 17 sections: 136 keep time, 49 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-43.

CHORUS
PART C
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesECUGAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living Monstrosity?

166 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 Living Monstrosity hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Living Monstrosity?

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 44, 55, 56 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
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