Dying To Love · Bad Omens

152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 22 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DYING TO LOVE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 52 and 20 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 15 sections: 65 keep time, 26 are fills, 21 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-34.

PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART AH
PART S13
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCRHS10AH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dying To Love?

145 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 To Love hard to play on drums?

46 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Dying To Love?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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