My Place In The Dirt · Demon Hunter

171 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 52-59 and 64-66, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
MY PLACE IN THE DIRT · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 51, 63, 71, 76, 77, 78 and 18 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 76-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 16 sections: 87 keep time, 24 are fills, 28 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-42.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesFKCS1T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Place In The Dirt?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Place In The Dirt hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Place In The Dirt?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 51, 63, 71, 76, 77, 78 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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