The Blackest Incarnation · The Black Dahlia Murder

223 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-71, 73-79 and 97-99, and 3 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
THE BLACKEST INCARNATION · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 20, 24 and 28 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 21 sections: 159 keep time, 34 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 180-190.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART Z
PART AF
14 groovesEZQNAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Blackest Incarnation?

240 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 Blackest Incarnation hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 Blackest Incarnation?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16, 20, 24 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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