Postmortem · Slayer

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 33 and 37-38, and 3 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 · 210 BPM
POSTMORTEM · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 23, 31 and 21 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 8 sections: 41 keep time, 28 are fills, 28 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-42.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AE
BREAK
6 groovesFS8GAEI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Postmortem?

210 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Postmortem hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Postmortem?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 23, 31 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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