Smasher/Devourer · Fear Factory

188 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 28-34, and 8 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SMASHER/DEVOURER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 152, 153 and 154.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 152-154 · LANDS ON BAR 155 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 24 sections: 141 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 173-188.

CHORUS
PART K
PART P
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFKPIT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smasher/Devourer?

134 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 Smasher/Devourer hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Smasher/Devourer?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 152, 153 and 154.

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