Southern Discomfort · Eyehategod

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 28-29 and 31-32, and 18 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 30, 36, 38 and 14 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 20 are fills, 21 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-66.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART S5
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AB
10 groovesKCABFS5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Southern Discomfort?

108 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 Southern Discomfort hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Southern Discomfort?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 24, 30, 36, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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