We Eat Our Young · Cattle Decapitation

124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-35 and 85-87, and 6 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WE EAT OUR YOUNG · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 78 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-124.

PART C
PART I
PART M
PART U
PART G
PART AA
PART AE
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAMAESIC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Eat Our Young?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is We Eat Our Young hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 We Eat Our Young?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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