Laser Cannon Deth Sentence (With Drums) · Dethklok

175 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 45 and 47, and 13 more places -- 21.1% 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
LASER CANNON DETH SENTENCE (WITH DRUMS) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 52, 54, 56, 68 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 15 sections: 127 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-48.

PART B
PART F
PART J
PART Q
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDFWBJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Laser Cannon Deth Sentence (With Drums)?

160 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 Laser Cannon Deth Sentence (With Drums) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Laser Cannon Deth Sentence (With Drums)?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 20, 28, 52, 54, 56, 68 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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