Plutonium Heaven · Cytotoxin

119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 92-93, and 4 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PLUTONIUM HEAVEN · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 42 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 4-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 15 sections: 43 keep time, 48 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-70.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART S6
PART AA
PART AK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKACAAAOS6+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plutonium Heaven?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Plutonium Heaven hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Plutonium Heaven?

23 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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