Narcissistic Taphonomy · Cerebral Effusion

227 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 26 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
NARCISSISTIC TAPHONOMY · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 23 and 50 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 5-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 19 sections: 128 keep time, 57 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-44.

CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
15 groovesINADBJQ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Narcissistic Taphonomy?

250 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 Narcissistic Taphonomy hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Narcissistic Taphonomy?

20 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 23 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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