Dead Sun · Thy Art Is Murder

115 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DEAD SUN · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 18 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 16 sections: 64 keep time, 24 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-114.

PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART U
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART N
PART AF
OUTRO
11 groovesHNEAR+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Sun?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sun hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sun?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 12, 16, 21 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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