Spheres Of Madness · Decapitated

202 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 24-27, and 26 more places -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SPHERES OF MADNESS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 33, 41, 47 and 26 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 11 sections: 159 keep time, 32 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-202.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spheres Of Madness?

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

Is Spheres Of Madness hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Spheres Of Madness?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 33, 41, 47 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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