Am I Dead? · Dreadknaw

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30 and 46-49 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
AM I DEAD? · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 22 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 41 keep time, 29 are fills, 37 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

PART B
PART N
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART J
PART AF
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQBNAFJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Am I Dead??

101 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Am I Dead? hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Am I Dead??

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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