Defensive Personalities · Death

107 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 202 BPM, 3:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 8 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
DEFENSIVE PERSONALITIES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 34, 42 and 3 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 9 sections: 40 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

CHORUS
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS9CGIL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Defensive Personalities?

202 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Defensive Personalities hard to play on drums?

63 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Defensive Personalities?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 14, 34, 42 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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