Down With The Sickness (Live) · Disturbed

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 16.2% 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 (LIVE) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 13 are fills, 7 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART J
VERSE 2
PART L
PART J
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesDJGMB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down With The Sickness (Live)?

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 (Live) hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 (Live)?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 43, 44 and 7 more.

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