Sodomizer · Nifelheim

216 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
7:11
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-52, 71-86 and 129-144, and 1 more place -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SODOMIZER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 22, 34 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 16 sections: 160 keep time, 23 are fills, 9 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-52.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMJRSO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sodomizer?

120 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 Sodomizer hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 7:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Sodomizer?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 22, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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