Millions Must Die · Helldiver

226 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 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
226
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 7 more places -- 13.2% 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
MILLIONS MUST DIE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 66, 90, 130, 146, 166 and 3 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 166 · LANDS ON BAR 167 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 14 sections: 175 keep time, 9 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-225.

PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQDAEKN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Millions Must Die?

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

Is Millions Must Die hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Millions Must Die?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 66, 90, 130, 146, 166 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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