Vermin Playthrough · Carcosa

142 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 12 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
VERMIN PLAYTHROUGH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 41, 42, 43 and 15 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 21 are fills, 36 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-26.

PART A
PART A
PART E
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AS
PART BB
CHORUS 2
10 groovesAFAEYAS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vermin Playthrough?

156 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 Vermin Playthrough hard to play on drums?

59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vermin Playthrough?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 41, 42, 43 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →