RIDDING OF IMPURITIES · FINAL RESTING PLACE

129 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 9 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
RIDDING OF IMPURITIES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16 and 17 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time, 23 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-64.

PART D
PART I
PART E
PART P
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AO
OUTRO
15 groovesWAVAGDP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RIDDING OF IMPURITIES?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is RIDDING OF IMPURITIES hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 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 RIDDING OF IMPURITIES?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 16 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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