Pustules · Rings Of Saturn

285 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 13-15, and 16 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 270 BPM
PUSTULES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 16, 20, 21 and 87 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 30 sections: 117 keep time, 93 are fills, 32 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-48.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART AU
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
11 groovesJZAWAU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pustules?

270 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 Pustules hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 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 Pustules?

29 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 16, 20, 21 and 87 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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