The Fish Rots From the Head Down · Ku De Ta

76 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 23-27 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
THE FISH ROTS FROM THE HEAD DOWN · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 16 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 28-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 43 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-39.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJACAIYA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fish Rots From the Head Down?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The Fish Rots From the Head Down hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Fish Rots From the Head Down?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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