Back From The Dead · Skillet

141 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 21-23 and 29-35, and 13 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BACK FROM THE DEAD · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 8, 48, 90, 94, 115 and 2 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 9 are fills, 45 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCEPS11A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back From The Dead?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Back From The Dead hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Back From The Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 8, 48, 90, 94, 115 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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