Slowly We Rot (D Standard) · Obituary

103 bars, 5:34, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SLOWLY WE ROT (D STANDARD) · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 42, 86 and 94.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-37.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAJBE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slowly We Rot (D Standard)?

74 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 Slowly We Rot (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 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 Slowly We Rot (D Standard)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 42, 86 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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