Stabwound · Necrophagist

154 bars at 239 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
239 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7, and 26 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 239 BPM
STABWOUND · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 24, 25 and 43 more.

LOOP · 239 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 239 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 50 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-61.

PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBQZS10H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stabwound?

239 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 Stabwound hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Stabwound?

13 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 24, 25 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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