Deathrash Legions · Deathchain

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DEATHRASH LEGIONS · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 39 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 45 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-48.

CHORUS
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEQKNOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathrash Legions?

130 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 Deathrash Legions hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Deathrash Legions?

24 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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