Dead Butterflies · Architects

119 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DEAD BUTTERFLIES · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 34, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 12 are fills, 28 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-81.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART R
PART S10
OUTRO
7 groovesFRBS10S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Butterflies?

125 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 Dead Butterflies hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Dead Butterflies?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 18, 34, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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