Death Shall Rise · Cancer, John Walker, Ian Buchanan, Carl Stokes

219 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 18-24 and 43-48, and 1 more place -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DEATH SHALL RISE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 53 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 29 sections: 112 keep time, 59 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 140-152.

PART G
PART W
PART AF
PART G
PART R
16 groovesUGLRP+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Shall Rise?

150 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 Shall Rise hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shall Rise?

18 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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