Life And Death · Blaze

58 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 4:48 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 18-21 and 28-29 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
LIFE AND DEATH · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 26 and 27.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 15 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-15.

PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6FBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life And Death?

95 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Life And Death 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Life And Death?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 26 and 27.

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