As I Die · Paradise Lost

103 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27-29, and 9 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
AS I DIE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 86.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 85 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-45.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesCBFEI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As I Die?

114 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 As I Die hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 As I Die?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 86.

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