The Atrophied · Monstrosity

162 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-12 and 15-17, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
THE ATROPHIED · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 14 and 61 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 67 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-53.

CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDRADLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Atrophied?

202 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 The Atrophied hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 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 The Atrophied?

21 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 14 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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