Praise The Lord Opium Of The Masses · Dying Fetus

288 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 165-171, and 5 more places -- 9.4% 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
PRAISE THE LORD OPIUM OF THE MASSES · BAR 34
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 93 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

288 bars across 34 sections: 143 keep time, 99 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 181-191.

PART A
PART AA
PART P
OUTRO 2
19 groovesRAAPAF+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Praise The Lord Opium Of The Masses?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Praise The Lord Opium Of The Masses hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 114 exercises over 34 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Praise The Lord Opium Of The Masses?

29 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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