The Somatic Defilement · Whitechapel

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 108-139 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE SOMATIC DEFILEMENT · BAR 108
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21 and 10 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 106 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-139.

PART D
PART H
PART O
PART T
PART X
PART AA
PART I
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAVAAAMTH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Somatic Defilement?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Somatic Defilement hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 24 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 Somatic Defilement?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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