Suspended In Tribulation · Suffocation

278 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 5:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-110, 138 and 140, and 6 more places -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
SUSPENDED IN TRIBULATION · BAR 138
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

40 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 95 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

37 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 31 sections: 116 keep time, 102 are fills, 26 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-110.

CHORUS
PART AO
PART AW
PART BK
CHORUS 3
PART BI
OUTRO
23 groovesAAMCEBKAW+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suspended In Tribulation?

196 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 Suspended In Tribulation hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

278 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 116 exercises over 32 sittings, about 27 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 Suspended In Tribulation?

40 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 95 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
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