The Wretched · Attack Attack!

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 23-26 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
THE WRETCHED · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 11 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 13 sections: 37 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECOS12I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wretched?

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 Wretched hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wretched?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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