Mark Of Cain · Diavolo

238 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 20 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
MARK OF CAIN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 64, 72, 80, 142, 155 and 156.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 155-156 · LANDS ON BAR 157 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 16 sections: 172 keep time, 6 are fills, 35 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 215-238.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART R
PART Z
PART S14
OUTRO 2
13 groovesDBAAAR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mark Of Cain?

180 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 Mark Of Cain hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 Mark Of Cain?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 64, 72, 80, 142, 155 and 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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