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118 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23-24 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DEATH AND GLITZ · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 47, 53, 55 and 18 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 24 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-39.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPAN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death and Glitz?

124 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 Death and Glitz hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 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, 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 Death and Glitz?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 47, 53, 55 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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