Pronounced Dead · desecrated Remains

68 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
PRONOUNCED DEAD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 33, 50 and 60.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesGIBLN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pronounced Dead?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pronounced Dead hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pronounced Dead?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 33, 50 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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