Deception Of Death · sda

96 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 28-30, and 4 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DECEPTION OF DEATH · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 27 and 7 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 17 sections: 56 keep time, 13 are fills, 13 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-26.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesGODIM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deception Of Death?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Deception Of Death hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Deception Of Death?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 27 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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