Masochist · Elysia

185 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 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
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
MASOCHIST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 40, 52, 55, 56, 60, 63 and 44 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 54 are fills, 33 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
PART F
PART J
PART R
CHORUS
PART AY
PART BD
OUTRO
13 groovesSAAYBIF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Masochist?

220 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 Masochist hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 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 Masochist?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 40, 52, 55, 56, 60, 63 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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