Decay · Elwood Stray

131 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-39 and 57-63, and 8 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
DECAY · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 40, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 12 sections: 44 keep time, 15 are fills, 46 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

PART C
PART B
PART F
PART O
CHORUS
PART S9
OUTRO
9 groovesKBS9FO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decay?

156 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 Decay 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:22 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, 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 Decay?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 40, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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