Down With The Sickness · Disturbed

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44 and 63-70 -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART C
VERSE
PART H
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
9 groovesJFHMA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down With The Sickness?

90 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 Down With The Sickness hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Down With The Sickness?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

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