Plaguebearer · Infant Annihilator

144 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 5:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38 and 40, and 4 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PLAGUEBEARER · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 39 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 36 keep time, 45 are fills, 6 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-41.

PART S2
PART O
CHORUS
PART AM
PART O
PART AA
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS12ACAMOS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plaguebearer?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Plaguebearer hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Plaguebearer?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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