Pierced Cranium · Armatilha

220 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-46, 48 and 52, and 14 more places -- 16.7% 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
PIERCED CRANIUM · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 60 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 19 sections: 132 keep time, 66 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-145.

PART I
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AF
PART Y
18 groovesACYAFIBB+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pierced Cranium?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pierced Cranium hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Pierced Cranium?

22 fills to learn, played 66 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 60 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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