Dead Girl Walking (Reprise) · Heathers: The Musical

77 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 and 51-54 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DEAD GIRL WALKING (REPRISE) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 35, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 77

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 53 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-34.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART L
PART N
PART Q
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGKLN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)?

110 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 Girl Walking (Reprise) hard to play on drums?

55 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Girl Walking (Reprise)?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 35, 62, 63, 64, 65 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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