Remnants Of Withered Decay · Malevolent Creation

218 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:20
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 34-40, 186-188 and 190-192, and 4 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 · 200 BPM
REMNANTS OF WITHERED DECAY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 24, 25, 27 and 61 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 19 sections: 119 keep time, 67 are fills, 11 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART F
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
PART AG
PART Q
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
12 groovesLWAGQAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Remnants Of Withered Decay?

200 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 Remnants Of Withered Decay hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Remnants Of Withered Decay?

28 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 4, 8, 13, 24, 25, 27 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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