Pure Massacre · Silverchair

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-62 and 65-68, and 1 more place -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PURE MASSACRE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 63, 64 and 80.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 91 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-62.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pure Massacre?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pure Massacre hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Pure Massacre?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 63, 64 and 80.

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