Deadweight · I Prevail

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 36-38, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DEADWEIGHT · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 17, 27, 31 and 10 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-59.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLHPCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deadweight?

105 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 Deadweight hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Deadweight?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 17, 27, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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