Seeds Of The Suffering · Suffocation

290 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-14 and 19-21, and 23 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 225 BPM
SEEDS OF THE SUFFERING · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 72 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

290 bars across 23 sections: 164 keep time, 78 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 194-208.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
19 groovesAAEKBTM+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Seeds Of The Suffering?

225 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 Seeds Of The Suffering hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 34 sittings, about 25 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 Seeds Of The Suffering?

30 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED
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