Lullaby For A Dead Man · Elena Siegman

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 38-44 and 59-61, and 1 more place -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LULLABY FOR A DEAD MAN · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 22, 45, 62 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-73.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesICAGS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lullaby For A Dead Man?

80 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 Lullaby For A Dead Man hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Lullaby For A Dead Man?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 22, 45, 62 and 4 more.

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