Birthday Dethday · Dethklok

99 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 18-25 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BIRTHDAY DETHDAY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 28, 29, 40 and 5 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 16 sections: 49 keep time, 13 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART J
PART L
PART H
PART J
PART S
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJLFS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birthday Dethday?

147 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 Birthday Dethday hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Birthday Dethday?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 28, 29, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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