Unquenchable thirst for Hemoglobin · Exhuming Torment

165 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 23 and 28-29, and 4 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR HEMOGLOBIN · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 123 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 117 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 14 sections: 37 keep time, 123 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-92.

CHORUS
PART X
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART BV
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOXBVS5K+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unquenchable thirst for Hemoglobin?

210 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 Unquenchable thirst for Hemoglobin hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Unquenchable thirst for Hemoglobin?

19 fills to learn, played 123 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 117 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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