Death Squad Anthem · Thy Art Is Murder

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 47-49, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DEATH SQUAD ANTHEM · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 28 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 10 sections: 27 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-45.

PART A
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART A
PART O
OUTRO
6 groovesIAOZL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Squad Anthem?

90 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 Squad Anthem hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Squad Anthem?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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