Sarcastic Existence · Sepultura

219 bars at 296 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
296 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-45, 86-93 and 96-102, and 6 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 296 BPM
SARCASTIC EXISTENCE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30 and 22 more.

LOOP · 296 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 296 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 296 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 296 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 18 sections: 130 keep time, 29 are fills, 12 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART A
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesLS18AMN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sarcastic Existence?

296 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 Sarcastic Existence hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Sarcastic Existence?

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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