Dead Bury Their Dead · Arch Enemy

108 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 73-79 and 89-95 -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 88 and 108.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 18 sections: 74 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-63.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Z
CHORUS 3
11 groovesEIRKO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Bury Their Dead?

110 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 Dead Bury Their Dead hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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 Dead Bury Their Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 40, 52, 88 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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