Born To Die · Black Bomb A

133 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BORN TO DIE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 84, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 9 are fills, 11 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-82.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesBHAGS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born To Die?

200 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 Born To Die hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Born To Die?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 20, 36, 44, 84, 88 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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