Mephistopheles · VENOM

136 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 8 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MEPHISTOPHELES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 58, 60, 70, 78 and 13 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 90 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-57.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesCGDQS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mephistopheles?

145 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 Mephistopheles hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mephistopheles?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 32, 36, 58, 60, 70, 78 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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