Dead Wreckoning · Aborted

141 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-63, 65-66 and 68-69, and 9 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEAD WRECKONING · BAR 63
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 20 sections: 71 keep time, 23 are fills, 5 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART C
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAEAFFCS20+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Wreckoning?

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 Wreckoning hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Wreckoning?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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