Dead End · Her Last Sight feat. The Curse Within

219 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 6 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DEAD END · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 48 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 20 sections: 114 keep time, 54 are fills, 22 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

PART Y
PART AG
CHORUS
PART AG
PART BE
PART BJ
OUTRO 2
13 groovesANAGIBJBE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead End?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dead End hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 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 End?

27 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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