Relapsing the Thought of Killing You · sillyserpent

87 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 49 and 60, and 3 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
RELAPSING THE THOUGHT OF KILLING YOU · BAR 60
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 22, 24, 33 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 17 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-58.

PART B
PART F
PART J
PART Q
PART W
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADAOBWF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Relapsing the Thought of Killing You?

135 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 Relapsing the Thought of Killing You hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Relapsing the Thought of Killing You?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 18, 22, 24, 33 and 11 more.

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