Deadman · Karnivool

267 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 9:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
9:56
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81, 83 and 85, and 5 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 127 BPM
DEADMAN · BAR 105
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 35, 36 and 18 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 34-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 22 sections: 161 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
PART A
PART O
PART AB
PART X
PART AL
OUTRO 2
20 groovesS22AXBAB+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deadman?

127 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 Deadman hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 9:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 35 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Deadman?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 34, 35, 36 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
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