Dead By Dawn · Deicide

159 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 22 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DEAD BY DAWN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 19, 23, 27 and 38 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 12 sections: 91 keep time, 44 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-14.

PART G
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AF
PART G
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesJGOAFK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead By Dawn?

135 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 By Dawn hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 By Dawn?

12 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 19, 23, 27 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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