Pathological Frolic · Cryptopsy

242 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 167-173, 175-180 and 183-189, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
PATHOLOGICAL FROLIC · BAR 168
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 38 and 66 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 22 sections: 115 keep time, 74 are fills, 26 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 232-241.

PART F
PART I
PART V
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
19 groovesBDIFLO+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pathological Frolic?

200 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 Pathological Frolic 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pathological Frolic?

29 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 38 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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