Statutory Ape · The Black Dahlia Murder

101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 45-46, and 4 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
STATUTORY APE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 15-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 54 are fills and 5 are stops.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART D
CHORUS 3
5 groovesPDGVATFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Statutory Ape?

110 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 Statutory Ape 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Statutory Ape?

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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