My Sacrifice · Creed

83 bars, 4:29, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-17 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 74 BPM
MY SACRIFICE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 15 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 40 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
PART S7
PART E
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBELS7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Sacrifice?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is My Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 My Sacrifice?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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