Die, Die My Darling · Misfits

126 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12-14, and 30 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 169 BPM
DIE, DIE MY DARLING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 96.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 7 sections: 113 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-125.

PART C
PART C
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die, Die My Darling?

169 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Die, Die My Darling hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Die, Die My Darling?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 18, 19 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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