Must Die · Daisuke Ishiwatari

175 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 60-64 and 66, and 4 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MUST DIE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 47 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 2-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 22 sections: 66 keep time, 53 are fills, 36 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-26.

CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AI
PART AO
PART AV
CHORUS 3
PART AI
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFOAIQW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Must Die?

170 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 Must Die hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Must Die?

24 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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