Death Of Me · Dan Byrne

141 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 11 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
DEATH OF ME · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 40, 44, 52, 60 and 13 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 14 sections: 41 keep time, 19 are fills, 35 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGJMBN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Of Me?

143 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 Of Me hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Of Me?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 40, 44, 52, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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