Dehumanization · Arch Enemy

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 43-48 and 67-72, and 3 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEHUMANIZATION · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 34, 50, 66, 97, 99 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 20 sections: 98 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIFGOA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dehumanization?

140 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 Dehumanization hard to play on drums?

59 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dehumanization?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 34, 50, 66, 97, 99 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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