Sulphur Souls · Marduk

239 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SULPHUR SOULS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 36 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 20 sections: 145 keep time, 42 are fills, 24 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-132.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART G
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART U
PART AI
OUTRO
17 groovesCUAARK+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sulphur Souls?

200 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 Sulphur Souls 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Sulphur Souls?

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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