Swarm (The cleansing) · Suicide Silence

212 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-63, 109-115 and 117-123, and 6 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
SWARM (THE CLEANSING) · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 22 sections: 122 keep time, 39 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-63.

PART J
PART P
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
9 groovesTPEJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Swarm (The cleansing)?

225 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 Swarm (The cleansing) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Swarm (The cleansing)?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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