Thy Horror Cosmic · The Black Dahlia Murder

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 3:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19 and 23, and 12 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 102 BPM
THY HORROR COSMIC · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 40, 54, 62 and 5 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-31.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMCJO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thy Horror Cosmic?

102 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Thy Horror Cosmic hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Thy Horror Cosmic?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 40, 54, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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