Morbid Effigy · Frozen Soul

119 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 30, and 9 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MORBID EFFIGY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 26 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 32 are fills, 16 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-63.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJS1FS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morbid Effigy?

130 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 Morbid Effigy hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Morbid Effigy?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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