Necrolust · Mayhem

117 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 101 BPM, 6:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 53-54 and 94-95, and 1 more place -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
NECROLUST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 65, 67 and 71.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-51.

PART A
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS9LQAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Necrolust?

101 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Necrolust hard to play on drums?

64 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Necrolust?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 65, 67 and 71.

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