Death will follow me · Boundaries

149 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 44-46, and 7 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DEATH WILL FOLLOW ME · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 26 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 16 sections: 83 keep time, 32 are fills, 13 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-139.

PART A
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJQALS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death will follow me?

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 will follow me hard to play on drums?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 will follow me?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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