The Thrash of Naked Limbs · My Dying Bride

179 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54 and 56, and 4 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
THE THRASH OF NAKED LIMBS · BARS 50-51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 35, 41, 49 and 24 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 13 sections: 110 keep time, 32 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AD
PART V
PART V
OUTRO
11 groovesOIAPVAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Thrash of Naked Limbs?

85 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 Thrash of Naked Limbs hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 8:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thrash of Naked Limbs?

21 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 35, 41, 49 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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