Violent Mood Swings · Spineshank

179 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
VIOLENT MOOD SWINGS · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 41, 83, 103, 127 and 129.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 21 sections: 119 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-60.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJOEGS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Violent Mood Swings?

220 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 Violent Mood Swings hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Violent Mood Swings?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 41, 83, 103, 127 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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