Of Beasts And Worms (slowed) · Allegaeon

252 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-54, 89-98 and 100-102, and 6 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
OF BEASTS AND WORMS (SLOWED) · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 17 sections: 110 keep time, 97 are fills, 3 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-45.

PART S1
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART BF
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDKS1BG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Of Beasts And Worms (slowed)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Of Beasts And Worms (slowed) hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Of Beasts And Worms (slowed)?

21 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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