Skull Fracturing Nightmare · Demolition Hammer

287 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 9:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
9:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 94-116, 122-128 and 154-161, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SKULL FRACTURING NIGHTMARE · BAR 95
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 20 sections: 226 keep time, 31 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 253-287.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBQACUJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Skull Fracturing Nightmare?

125 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 Skull Fracturing Nightmare hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 9:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Skull Fracturing Nightmare?

18 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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