My Love, My Illness, My End · Deadbeat Nightlife

165 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-62, 65-66 and 93-99, and 3 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MY LOVE, MY ILLNESS, MY END · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 54 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time, 60 are fills, 3 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-99.

PART D
PART H
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesWHDAAAL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Love, My Illness, My End?

140 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 My Love, My Illness, My End hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 My Love, My Illness, My End?

27 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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