Song 9 · Diseased Ways

144 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:42
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 3-5, 7-9 and 11-17, and 10 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
SONG 9 · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 130.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 22 sections: 97 keep time, 6 are fills, 26 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-30.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART I
PART J
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCJIKL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 9?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Song 9 hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Song 9?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 130.

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