Danse Macabre · Heaven Pierce Her

116 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DANSE MACABRE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 45, 46 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 9 sections: 47 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesEJS6S9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Danse Macabre?

160 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 Danse Macabre hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 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 Danse Macabre?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 33, 45, 46 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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