Death Sentence · Spite

130 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 57, and 5 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
DEATH SENTENCE · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 14 sections: 86 keep time, 13 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-79.

PART B
PART D
PART G
PART G
PART K
PART Z
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAEKGZB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Sentence?

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

Is Death Sentence hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 Sentence?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 48, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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