Sinfestation · Dark Divine

98 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 27, and 14 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
SINFESTATION · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 58, 78 and 90.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 15 sections: 47 keep time, 4 are fills, 28 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
PART P
BREAK 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDAPGS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sinfestation?

154 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sinfestation hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Sinfestation?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 58, 78 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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