Left To Die · Death

218 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-59, 131-137 and 139-146, and 9 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LEFT TO DIE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35 and 17 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 79-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 16 sections: 157 keep time, 23 are fills, 14 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-59.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJCDOR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Left To Die?

150 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 Left To Die hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Left To Die?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 35 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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