Make Me Wanna Die · The Pretty Reckless

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 34-37 and 88-95 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
MAKE ME WANNA DIE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 29, 41, 55, 58, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 76-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 54 keep time, 10 are fills, 13 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-75.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHAMS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Make Me Wanna Die?

97 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 Make Me Wanna Die hard to play on drums?

58 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Make Me Wanna Die?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 29, 41, 55, 58, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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