Loathsome · Pig Destroyer

174 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
LOATHSOME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 59 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 18 sections: 76 keep time, 66 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-48.

PART B
PART F
PART B
PART F
PART S
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AT
PART AY
PART BG
CHORUS 3
12 groovesXFBAFAT+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loathsome?

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

Is Loathsome hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Loathsome?

25 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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