In Dying Days · As Blood Runs Black

169 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27 and 31-33, and 9 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 151 BPM
IN DYING DAYS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 29 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BARS 19-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 19 sections: 104 keep time, 36 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-110.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AF
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
15 groovesNIFQBF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Dying Days?

151 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In Dying Days hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In Dying Days?

18 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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