dancing with the dead pw · Powerwolf

166 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 46-53, and 17 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 166 BPM
DANCING WITH THE DEAD PW · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 44, 45, 54 and 19 more.

LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 166 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 14 sections: 108 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-135.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART J
OUTRO
10 groovesFMJTI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is dancing with the dead pw?

166 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 dancing with the dead pw hard to play on drums?

46 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 dancing with the dead pw?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 44, 45, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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