Dead Girl Walking · Heathers: The Musical

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 19-20 and 34-37, and 2 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
DEAD GIRL WALKING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 61, 68, 69, 81 and 3 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 15 sections: 57 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART H
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEMHJA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Girl Walking?

104 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 Girl Walking hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Girl Walking?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 56, 57, 61, 68, 69, 81 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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