Gimme Deathrace · Combichrist

140 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 10 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GIMME DEATHRACE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 64 and 80.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 14 sections: 91 keep time, 6 are fills, 23 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-39.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
8 groovesDGJS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Deathrace?

150 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 Gimme Deathrace hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gimme Deathrace?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 64 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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