One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight · Perdolet

189 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 11 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ONE OF US IS GONNA DIE TONIGHT · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 21 sections: 134 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-143.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
14 groovesTLDS20F+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight?

135 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 One Of Us Is Gonna Die Tonight hard to play on drums?

48 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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