Numbness · Dolorent

129 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 82-129 -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NUMBNESS · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 65.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 2 are fills, 49 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART B
PART S3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLS3AKB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Numbness?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Numbness hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Numbness?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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