pruritus ani · Rotten Flesh

84 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 6-9 and 74-77, and 1 more place -- 19% 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
PRURITUS ANI · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 15, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 7 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time, 13 are fills and 33 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART A
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is pruritus ani?

210 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 pruritus ani hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 pruritus ani?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 15, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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