Testicular Torsion · Diavolo

150 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 137 and 139-141, and 2 more places -- 12% 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
TESTICULAR TORSION · BAR 137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 37 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
PART Q
PART W
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCDWANQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Testicular Torsion?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Testicular Torsion hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Testicular Torsion?

19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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