Prelude To Repulsion · Suffocation

254 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 23-37 and 46, and 11 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 211 BPM
PRELUDE TO REPULSION · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 19, 38 and 80 more.

LOOP · 211 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 19 sections: 114 keep time, 86 are fills, 35 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-37.

CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART AE
PART S9
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
13 groovesJHES9G+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prelude To Repulsion?

211 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 Prelude To Repulsion hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Prelude To Repulsion?

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 19, 38 and 80 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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