Dying · Herbivora

216 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50, and 40 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
DYING · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 64 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

216 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 70 are fills, 50 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-137.

PART B
PART A
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AQ
BREAK
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRS9ABAQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dying hard to play on drums?

54 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dying?

20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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