Live Undead · Slayer

141 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-91, 98-99 and 106-107, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
LIVE UNDEAD · BAR 86
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 29 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 15 sections: 77 keep time, 35 are fills, 7 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-107.

PART D
PART L
PART N
PART L
PART T
PART D
PART S12
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesALAJDLN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live Undead?

108 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 Live Undead hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Live Undead?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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