Dead Man Walking · Jelly Roll

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 13, and 20 more places -- 51.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DEAD MAN WALKING · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 16, 36, 38, 40, 68 and 1 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 55 keep time, 7 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-35.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS4CS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Man Walking?

90 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?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dead Man Walking?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 16, 36, 38, 40, 68 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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