Deathwish · Within Destruction

160 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 47-50, and 3 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DEATHWISH · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 22 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 23 sections: 70 keep time, 22 are fills, 39 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-14.

PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART AB
PART AI
OUTRO
16 groovesNWIEAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathwish?

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

Is Deathwish hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 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 Deathwish?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 22 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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