Serial Messiah · Cryptopsy

170 bars at 246 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
246 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 9 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 246 BPM
SERIAL MESSIAH · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 37 more.

LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 43 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-86.

CHORUS
PART P
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDILVP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Serial Messiah?

246 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 Serial Messiah hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 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 Serial Messiah?

24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 28, 32 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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