Necrophobic · Slayer

100 bars at 251 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
251 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 19-21 and 23-29, and 8 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 251 BPM
NECROPHOBIC · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 10, 16, 18, 30, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 251 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 251 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 251 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 251 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 15 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-29.

PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
4 groovesFCLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Necrophobic?

251 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 Necrophobic hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Necrophobic?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 6, 10, 16, 18, 30, 32 and 9 more.

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