A Certain Death · Misery Signals

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 2:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-132 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
A CERTAIN DEATH · BAR 107
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 26, 31, 39 and 22 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 11 sections: 110 keep time, 29 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-132.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART AC
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEAGAPARR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Certain Death?

192 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Certain Death hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Certain Death?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 21, 26, 31, 39 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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