Rat Torture · Distant

97 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68 and 81-83 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
RAT TORTURE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-78.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART S8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKS8DOAF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rat Torture?

128 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 Rat Torture hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rat Torture?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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