The Scent of Your Rotting · SHITWORKERS

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-6 and 8-9, and 9 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE SCENT OF YOUR ROTTING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42 and 8 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 41-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time, 15 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART N
PART W
PART D
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesBDFNT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Scent of Your Rotting?

180 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 Scent of Your Rotting hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Scent of Your Rotting?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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