Morbid Visions · Sepultura

198 bars at 234 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
234 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 35 more places -- 53.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 234 BPM
MORBID VISIONS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 14, 24, 25, 29, 58 and 9 more.

LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 234 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 234 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 14 sections: 153 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
10 groovesDTSUB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Morbid Visions?

234 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 Morbid Visions 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Visions?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 14, 24, 25, 29, 58 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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