Dying · Obituary

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 31-35 and 37-39, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DYING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 54, 58, 69 and 15 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 22 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-67.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART S
PART U
PART S
PART AK
OUTRO
10 groovesDSNAHAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying?

130 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 Dying hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 36, 40, 54, 58, 69 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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