Deathbox · Mnemic

188 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 230 BPM, 3:48 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-81, 83-84 and 87-89, and 4 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
DEATHBOX · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 36, 54, 73, 74, 86 and 7 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 17 sections: 107 keep time, 13 are fills, 15 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-49.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesQDS17IZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathbox?

230 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Deathbox hard to play on drums?

43 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deathbox?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 36, 54, 73, 74, 86 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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