This Bitch Will Only Have Time to Scream · Cyanide Blood

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-32 and 66, and 3 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THIS BITCH WILL ONLY HAVE TIME TO SCREAM · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 61, 69 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 20 sections: 104 keep time, 10 are fills, 28 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-126.

CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART AK
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesEYAKJN+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Bitch Will Only Have Time to Scream?

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 This Bitch Will Only Have Time to Scream hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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 This Bitch Will Only Have Time to Scream?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 61, 69 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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