I Think That I Would Die · Hole

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-54, 65-72 and 89-98 -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 18, 34, 44 and 88.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-98.

PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBHS8S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Think That I Would Die?

128 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 I Think That I Would Die hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 I Think That I Would Die?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 18, 34, 44 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Hole drum parts

EVERY HOLE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →