The Suffering · Baphomet

172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 121, 129 and 137, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE SUFFERING · BARS 139-140
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 64, 122, 123, 124 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 122-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 22 sections: 115 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-40.

PART F
PART P
PART R
PART U
CHORUS
17 groovesVFPUA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Suffering?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Suffering hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Suffering?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 43, 44, 64, 122, 123, 124 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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