Mass Strangulation · Bloodbath

102 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 38-44 and 86-100 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MASS STRANGULATION · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 12 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-84.

PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEUKDF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mass Strangulation?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Mass Strangulation hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Mass Strangulation?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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