Death Valley Superstars · Murderdolls

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 26 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DEATH VALLEY SUPERSTARS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 27 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 4 sections: 79 keep time, 33 are fills and 39 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Valley Superstars?

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

Is Death Valley Superstars hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Valley Superstars?

12 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 27 more.

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