Dead But Pretty · IC3PEAK

14 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 0:30 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:30
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
DEAD BUT PRETTY · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars across 3 sections: 10 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-7.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead But Pretty?

112 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 But Pretty hard to play on drums?

59 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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