Plead for Your Life · Serenity in Murder

151 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-87, 93-94 and 97-103, and 1 more place -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
PLEAD FOR YOUR LIFE · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 22, 23, 24, 31 and 19 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 16 sections: 61 keep time, 25 are fills, 28 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-109.

PART A
PART C
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesABCS15AGQ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Plead for Your Life?

115 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 Plead for Your Life hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Plead for Your Life?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 22, 23, 24, 31 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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