Pungent Stench · Pungent Stench

66 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PUNGENT STENCH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 21, 25, 31, 35, 41 and 2 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 3 sections: 55 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-65.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pungent Stench?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pungent Stench hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pungent Stench?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 21, 25, 31, 35, 41 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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