Sermon Of Mockery · Pyrexia

217 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 4:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-96, 111 and 118-119, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SERMON OF MOCKERY · BAR 89
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 26, 40, 48 and 41 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 22 sections: 122 keep time, 47 are fills, 24 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 204-217.

PART K
PART Y
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO
17 groovesAIAHKYCD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sermon Of Mockery?

165 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Sermon Of Mockery hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 31 sittings, about 25 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 Sermon Of Mockery?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 26, 40, 48 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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