Beach Life-In-Death · Car Seat Headrest

470 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 11:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
470
LENGTH
11:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 382-396, 398-404 and 406-408, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BEACH LIFE-IN-DEATH · BAR 382
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 82, 98, 113, 114, 138, 154 and 28 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 113-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

470 bars across 20 sections: 331 keep time, 34 are fills, 34 are stops and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 254-286.

PART B
PART D
PART L
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesADLNDG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beach Life-In-Death?

162 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 Beach Life-In-Death hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

470 bars, about 11:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Beach Life-In-Death?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 82, 98, 113, 114, 138, 154 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 470 BARS ANALYSED
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