Twist Of Cain · Danzig

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 27-28, and 23 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
TWIST OF CAIN · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 58, 66, 94, 102 and 114.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 8 sections: 92 keep time, 6 are fills, 13 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-48.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDNCM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twist Of Cain?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Twist Of Cain hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Twist Of Cain?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 54, 58, 66, 94, 102 and 114.

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