Pierced from Within · Suffocation

163 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 209 BPM
PIERCED FROM WITHIN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BARS 32-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 68 are fills, 8 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-127.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART AO
PART AZ
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesIS9AOAZB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pierced from Within?

209 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 from Within hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 from Within?

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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