"Dead Man Walking" · CRUCIFIX + THE LACS

173 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 30-39, and 7 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
"DEAD MAN WALKING" · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 69, 121, 123 and 2 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 67-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 13 sections: 124 keep time, 8 are fills, 8 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-110.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
PART G
5 groovesFDGS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Dead Man Walking"?

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 Man Walking" hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in "Dead Man Walking"?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 65, 67, 68, 69, 121, 123 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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