Cursed To Die · Lorna Shore

147 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 97-99, 101-102 and 105-107, and 2 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CURSED TO DIE · BARS 97-98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 89 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 9-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 22 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 33-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 22 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 56-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 73-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 13 sections: 22 keep time, 95 are fills, 9 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-119.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AK
PART A
PART AY
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAFS2S4AYAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cursed To Die?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cursed To Die hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Cursed To Die?

15 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 89 more.

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