Considered Dead · Gorguts

159 bars at 231 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
231 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 12-17 and 38-43, and 3 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 231 BPM
CONSIDERED DEAD · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20 and 16 more.

LOOP · 231 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 231 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 231 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 231 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 16 sections: 111 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-135.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
PART T
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AA
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesDRAAHJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Considered Dead?

231 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Considered Dead hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Considered Dead?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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