Only Dying - Demo · Stone Temple Pilots

188 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 120-133 and 169-188 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
ONLY DYING - DEMO · BARS 120-121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 59, 60 and 10 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 26-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 59-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 14 sections: 124 keep time, 16 are fills, 13 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-91.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDVLMS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only Dying - Demo?

116 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 Only Dying - Demo hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Only Dying - Demo?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 26, 27, 28, 29, 59, 60 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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