Dance Of Death · Iron Maiden

224 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 24 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DANCE OF DEATH · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 27, 40, 41 and 29 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 13 sections: 121 keep time, 35 are fills, 5 are stops and 53 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-102.

PART D
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
BREAK 3
10 groovesQLS12DS3+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance Of Death?

135 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 Dance Of Death hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Dance Of Death?

24 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 27, 40, 41 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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