Die For You · Alice Cooper

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 40-42, and 4 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DIE FOR YOU · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 35, 39, 43, 51, 61 and 11 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 52 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGDS1PR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die For You?

100 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 Die For You hard to play on drums?

53 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?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Die For You?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 35, 39, 43, 51, 61 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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