Unidentified Corpses · Contaminant

92 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 40-42 and 44-46, and 2 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
UNIDENTIFIED CORPSES · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 92.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 16 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHJLCN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unidentified Corpses?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Unidentified Corpses hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 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 Unidentified Corpses?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 92.

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