Supposed To Rot · Entombed

54 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 1:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 19-22, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
SUPPOSED TO ROT · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 14, 16, 17 and 9 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 9 sections: 26 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-5.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesDGBLK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Supposed To Rot?

162 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 Supposed To Rot hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 Supposed To Rot?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 6, 10, 14, 16, 17 and 9 more.

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