Deception · Dance Gavin Dance

158 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-58, 60-66 and 68-69, and 3 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DECEPTION · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 46, 47, 51 and 6 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 13 sections: 92 keep time, 12 are fills, 25 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-96.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART O
PART S8
PART U
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKDOS1B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deception?

165 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 Deception hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Deception?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 34, 35, 46, 47, 51 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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