Thumbsucker · Pig Destroyer

75 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 1:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 11-13, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THUMBSUCKER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 14, 20 and 9 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 42 keep time, 15 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-33.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART X
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAKVX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thumbsucker?

190 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 Thumbsucker hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 Thumbsucker?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 14, 20 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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