Go Forth And Die · Dethklok

174 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

117 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

174

LENGTH

4:16

DIFFICULTY

72/100

snare through bars 1-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60, snare through bars 61-64, ride through bars 65-86, hi-hat through bars 87-94 and snare through bars 95-110, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-39, 41-56 and 95-109, and 3 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 122, 126, 127, 142, 150 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
6. Bars 81-123 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 77-128 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 83-98 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.