If He Dies, He Dies · Glass Cloud

168 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 40-46, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
IF HE DIES, HE DIES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 39, 71 and 160.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 160 · LANDS ON BAR 161
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 9 sections: 120 keep time, 4 are fills, 30 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

PART E
PART H
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMEHABS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If He Dies, He Dies?

160 BPM, in 3/4, 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 If He Dies, He Dies hard to play on drums?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 If He Dies, He Dies?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 39, 71 and 160.

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