Living Dead Beat · Children Of Bodom

157 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65, 67-69 and 71-72, and 6 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LIVING DEAD BEAT · BARS 67-68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 41 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 13 sections: 88 keep time, 47 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART A
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART T
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesXAKDAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living Dead Beat?

130 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 Living Dead Beat hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 Living Dead Beat?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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