Better off Dead. · Sleeping With Sirens

141 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopPunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 21-27 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BETTER OFF DEAD. · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 72, 76, 103 and 5 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 14 are fills, 27 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-27.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLAOD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better off Dead.?

190 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 Better off Dead. hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Better off Dead.?

2 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 72, 76, 103 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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