God Send Death · Slayer

191 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-52, 54-59 and 82-88, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
GOD SEND DEATH · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 29-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 17 sections: 94 keep time, 37 are fills, 37 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-117.

PART N
PART X
PART N
PART X
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
13 groovesUXAJNA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Send Death?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God Send Death hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 God Send Death?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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