Vultures Descend · Disentomb

207 bars at 265 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
265 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 21 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 265 BPM
VULTURES DESCEND · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 11 more.

LOOP · 265 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 265 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 265 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 265 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 13 sections: 170 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 169-187.

PART C
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCWLI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vultures Descend?

265 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 Vultures Descend hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 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 Vultures Descend?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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