Playing God (ft. Corey Taylor) · Motionless In White

170 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
PLAYING GOD (FT. COREY TAYLOR) · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 19 sections: 57 keep time, 23 are fills, 53 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART G
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEAKQKG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Playing God (ft. Corey Taylor)?

198 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 Playing God (ft. Corey Taylor) hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Playing God (ft. Corey Taylor)?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 23, 24, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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