Let Down · Dead By Sunrise

132 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-55 and 77, and 11 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LET DOWN · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 76 and 108.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 4 sections: 108 keep time, 3 are fills and 19 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-39.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let Down?

150 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 Let Down hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Let Down?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 76 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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