Death · Slaughter To Prevail

123 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 28 and 58-60 -- 4.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DEATH · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 14 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 21 sections: 57 keep time, 20 are fills, 18 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AH
PART BE
PART S19
OUTRO
20 groovesGACBEAHB+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 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?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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