Stigmata · Ministry

230 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11-12, and 60 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
STIGMATA · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 62, 78, 82, 94, 96 and 11 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 13 sections: 196 keep time and 17 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-53.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART E
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
VERSE 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIFEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stigmata?

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 Stigmata hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stigmata?

3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 54, 62, 78, 82, 94, 96 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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