Denial · Sevendust

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-32, 34 and 48-52, and 4 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DENIAL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 33, 35, 37, 47, 53 and 12 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEABXFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Denial?

105 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 Denial hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 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 Denial?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 27, 33, 35, 37, 47, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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