The Eggs of Melancholy · Mutiilation

191 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-43, 73-86 and 135-163, and 2 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE EGGS OF MELANCHOLY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 44, 45 and 12 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 13 sections: 96 keep time, 18 are fills, 38 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-163.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesECS1JQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Eggs of Melancholy?

170 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 Eggs of Melancholy hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Eggs of Melancholy?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 44, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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