Rot To Dead · Sentenced

110 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6 and 8-16 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ROT TO DEAD · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 25, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 45-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 60-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 52 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-42.

PART E
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesOGARS7E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rot To Dead?

100 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Rot To Dead hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Rot To Dead?

5 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 25, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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