Dead On Arrival · Fall Out Boy

161 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 20 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
DEAD ON ARRIVAL · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 38 are fills, 41 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART T
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
8 groovesNTJZA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead On Arrival?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dead On Arrival hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 On Arrival?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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