Bela Lugosi's Dead · Bauhaus

358 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 9:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
358
LENGTH
9:22
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4 and 6, and 173 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

358 bars across 4 sections: 353 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-194.

CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bela Lugosi's Dead?

153 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 Bela Lugosi's Dead hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

358 bars, about 9:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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