Bottom Of The Death Valley · Dir En Grey

145 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 59-65 and 115-121, and 1 more place -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BOTTOM OF THE DEATH VALLEY · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 49, 50 and 19 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 11 sections: 99 keep time, 25 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-25.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEPUCAM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bottom Of The Death Valley?

110 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 Bottom Of The Death Valley hard to play on drums?

57 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 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 Bottom Of The Death Valley?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 30, 38, 42, 46, 49, 50 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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