Meant to be Dead · Burn Everything Down

124 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36-38 and 40-41, and 15 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
MEANT TO BE DEAD · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 35, 39 and 8 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 82 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-83.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBKOG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meant to be Dead?

215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Meant to be Dead hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 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 Meant to be Dead?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 35, 39 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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