Deadstick · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

124 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 22, and 11 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEADSTICK · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 27 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 33 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-99.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDAS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deadstick?

140 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 Deadstick hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Deadstick?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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