Deathbed Atheist · Norma Jean

133 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-22 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEATHBED ATHEIST · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 13 sections: 72 keep time, 1 is a fill, 19 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-22.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesGS13BCM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathbed Atheist?

140 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Deathbed Atheist hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Deathbed Atheist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

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