Dead End Friends · Them Crooked Vultures

126 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-32, and 9 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
DEAD END FRIENDS · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 38 and 17 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 23 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-55.

PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGTPDN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead End Friends?

151 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 End Friends hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 End Friends?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 38 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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