Let it Die · Starset

109 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 41-43 and 45-46, and 9 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
LET IT DIE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 15 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 21 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEIS10A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let it Die?

126 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 it Die hard to play on drums?

44 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Let it Die?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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