Dead To Me · Solar Eruption

151 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEAD TO ME · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 36 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 42 are fills, 44 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-76.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCSS13S2AF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead To Me?

140 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 To Me hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To Me?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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