『first death』 · TK from Ling tosite sigure

60 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17, and 3 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
『FIRST DEATH』 · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 18 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 25 keep time, 24 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesARXUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 『first death』?

164 BPM, in 4/4, 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 『first death』 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 『first death』?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 24, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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