Welcome To Sludge City 2026 · Annotations of an Autopsy

79 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 6 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WELCOME TO SLUDGE CITY 2026 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 14 sections: 34 keep time, 20 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-78.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART E
PART R
PART T
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEXJT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Welcome To Sludge City 2026?

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 Welcome To Sludge City 2026 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Welcome To Sludge City 2026?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17 and 14 more.

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