Dead Man Walking · Brand New Sin

112 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 34-39, and 8 more places -- 44.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DEAD MAN WALKING · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 65, 75, 76, 77, 91, 92 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 91-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
8 groovesFECAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Man Walking?

150 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 Man Walking hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Man Walking?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 65, 75, 76, 77, 91, 92 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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