Death Before Dishonor · Five Finger Death Punch

160 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 45-51 and 65-71, and 4 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 72, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 16 sections: 93 keep time, 13 are fills, 35 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-160.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFHBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Before Dishonor?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Death Before Dishonor hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Death Before Dishonor?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 72, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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