Purgatory copy · Conscious Dismemberment

154 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68, 70 and 72, and 2 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
PURGATORY COPY · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 52, 54, 56, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 20 sections: 78 keep time, 15 are fills, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

PART H
PART R
PART V
PART Z
PART AF
PART AM
PART AO
PART AS
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
18 groovesABASAFVAM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Purgatory copy?

180 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 Purgatory copy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Purgatory copy?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 52, 54, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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