Pisschrist · Fear Factory

215 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44, 62-68 and 107-113, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
PISSCHRIST · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 17, 19, 37, 45, 61, 69 and 25 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 20 sections: 146 keep time, 31 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 179-209.

PART B
PART F
PART W
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesLIFBW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pisschrist?

164 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 Pisschrist hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 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 Pisschrist?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 17, 19, 37, 45, 61, 69 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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