Slowly We Rot · Obituary

102 bars, 5:35, at 73 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 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-37 and 43-49, 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 · 73 BPM
SLOWLY WE ROT · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 20, 55 and 2 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-37.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJBMAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slowly We Rot?

73 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 hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 20, 55 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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