Desperate Pleasures · Every Time I Die

129 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-85, 114-116 and 118-120, and 2 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
DESPERATE PLEASURES · BAR 80
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 25 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 18 sections: 39 keep time, 31 are fills, 27 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART D
PART G
PART L
PART T
PART Q
PART AE
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAHBAEQS12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desperate Pleasures?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Desperate Pleasures hard to play on drums?

60 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Desperate Pleasures?

21 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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