Not Gonna Die · Skillet

159 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 47-55 and 87-92, and 9 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
NOT GONNA DIE · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 46, 58 and 18 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 14 sections: 68 keep time, 24 are fills, 50 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-30.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGJEA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not Gonna Die?

172 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 Not Gonna Die hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 7 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Not Gonna Die?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 14, 46, 58 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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