Dead Space · Harms Way

159 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 70-76, 78-84 and 125-131, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
DEAD SPACE · BARS 70-71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 35 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 14-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 24-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 17 sections: 81 keep time, 41 are fills, 21 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-66.

PART F
PART H
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AO
13 groovesABYUAOF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Space?

138 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 Space 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Space?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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