Praise Of Death · Slayer

249 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-34, 48-56 and 58, and 4 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
PRAISE OF DEATH · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 35, 39, 46 and 31 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 202 BPM
BARS 46-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 18 sections: 165 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 126-148.

CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART R
PART F
10 groovesCFBRS14+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Praise Of Death?

202 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 Praise Of Death hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Praise Of Death?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 35, 39, 46 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED
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