Malediction · Hemotoxin

147 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
MALEDICTION · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time and 52 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

PART I
PART L
PART P
PART T
PART L
PART Y
PART AE
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesANILAYAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Malediction?

210 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 Malediction hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Malediction?

21 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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