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Welcome To Sludge City 2026 · Annotations of an Autopsy

Welcome To Sludge City 2026 · Annotations of an Autopsy
EXERCISE 27 OF 59
Groove R -- Part R
51 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To Sludge City 2026 on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x---x-------x---x---|
Welcome To Sludge City 2026 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-10 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-20 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 28-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED