Where The Slime Live · Morbid Angel

245 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-42, 45-50 and 85-90, and 11 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
WHERE THE SLIME LIVE · BAR 174
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 34 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 19 sections: 150 keep time, 41 are fills and 31 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-107.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesMAVADE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The Slime Live?

174 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 Where The Slime Live hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Where The Slime Live?

15 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
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