Rejoice in Moribund · Mortal Decay

176 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 14 and 18, and 10 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
REJOICE IN MORIBUND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 30, 36, 52 and 22 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 18 sections: 108 keep time, 28 are fills, 10 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-51.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART S9
PART L
PART Q
PART AI
13 groovesDQNAIL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rejoice in Moribund?

240 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 Rejoice in Moribund hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Rejoice in Moribund?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 30, 36, 52 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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