SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI · Machine Head

154 bars, 8:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
8:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 and 132-154 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33 and 64 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 15 sections: 68 keep time, 70 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-154.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART AA
PART P
PART AA
PART AU
PART AA
PART BF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAAPKAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 8:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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 SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI?

26 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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