Dead Roots Stirring · Elder

354 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
354
LENGTH
11:47
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 49-51 and 57, and 44 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEAD ROOTS STIRRING · BAR 68
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 32, 44, 48 and 56 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 64-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

354 bars across 28 sections: 242 keep time, 62 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-167.

PART C
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART BC
CHORUS 7
17 groovesOPCASBC+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Roots Stirring?

120 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 Roots Stirring 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

354 bars, about 11:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 110 exercises over 30 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Roots Stirring?

21 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 32, 44, 48 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 354 BARS ANALYSED
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