Spirit Crusher · Death

247 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 8:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
8:12
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-94, 96-98 and 100-102, and 5 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SPIRIT CRUSHER · BAR 93
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 15, 16, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 30 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 25 sections: 152 keep time, 38 are fills, 16 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 124-134.

PART E
CHORUS
PART AP
PART BA
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO 2
19 groovesWAPJZD+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spirit Crusher?

108 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 Spirit Crusher hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 8:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 41 sittings, about 24 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 Spirit Crusher?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 15, 16, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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