Dead Upon Dawn · Dead Witness

146 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 44-46, and 4 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 206 BPM
DEAD UPON DAWN · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 23, 32, 35, 39, 51 and 10 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 9 sections: 103 keep time, 16 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-145.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBLRF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Upon Dawn?

206 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 Upon Dawn hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Upon Dawn?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 23, 32, 35, 39, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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