Premature Burial · Malevolent Creation

149 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 5 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
PREMATURE BURIAL · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 17, 22 and 40 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 19 sections: 76 keep time, 46 are fills, 8 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-53.

PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
PART V
PART AC
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJEOVC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Premature Burial?

187 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 Premature Burial hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Premature Burial?

17 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 17, 22 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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