Manipulation of Tragedy · Sepultura

145 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 57-63 and 129-136 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MANIPULATION OF TRAGEDY · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 47 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 17 sections: 94 keep time, 15 are fills, 9 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART AE
PART AI
PART AM
PART AK
CHORUS 3
13 groovesNIAAKAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Manipulation of Tragedy?

135 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 Manipulation of Tragedy hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 Manipulation of Tragedy?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 23, 24, 40, 47 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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