Severed · Mudvayne

238 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 11 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
SEVERED · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 88 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 18 sections: 69 keep time, 94 are fills, 19 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-28.

PART B
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART S15
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIOS15TB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Severed?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Severed hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Severed?

25 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 88 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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