To The Depths (In Degradation) · Infester

211 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 199 BPM
TO THE DEPTHS (IN DEGRADATION) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 33 and 58 more.

LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 26 sections: 87 keep time, 64 are fills, 30 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-126.

CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART C
PART S10
PART BN
PART BO
PART F
17 groovesGFCBNAF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To The Depths (In Degradation)?

199 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 To The Depths (In Degradation) hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 29 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To The Depths (In Degradation)?

35 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 26, 30, 33 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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