Senseless Massacre · Rings Of Saturn

232 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 202-216 and 218-219 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 260 BPM
SENSELESS MASSACRE · BAR 203
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 105 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 99 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 9-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 20 sections: 53 keep time, 105 are fills, 42 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 202-216.

PART K
PART W
PART AD
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART BO
PART AU
PART CH
BREAK 3
15 groovesQKWAUCH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Senseless Massacre?

260 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 Senseless Massacre hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Senseless Massacre?

31 fills to learn, played 105 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 99 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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