Utterances Of The Crawling Dead · Nile

204 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:38 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-18, 20 and 22-24, and 14 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 182 BPM
UTTERANCES OF THE CRAWLING DEAD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 21, 27, 33 and 19 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 13 sections: 159 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-135.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART I
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesFIOBA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Utterances Of The Crawling Dead?

182 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 Utterances Of The Crawling Dead 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Utterances Of The Crawling Dead?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 13, 19, 21, 27, 33 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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